Mental Health in the EA Community using SSC’s 2019 Survey

If you run some regressions, you get a significant correlation between EA affiliation and mental conditions; respondents who identified as EA differed from non-EAs by ~2-4% (see below). Note that the SSC Survey is subject to fewer biases than the EA Mental Health survey, and also note that it’s still difficult to extract causal conclusions. See also: that EA Mental Health Survey. Data available here

Plots:

Diagnosed + Intuited

                                                                            x   y         %
1                                                                      EA Yes 959 100.00000
2         Has been diagnosed with a mental condition, or thinks they have one 580  60.47967
3 Has not been diagnosed with a mental condition, and does not think they any 347  36.18352
4                                                          NA / Didn't answer 125  13.03441
                                                                            x    y          %
1                                                                    EA Sorta 2223 100.000000
2         Has been diagnosed with a mental condition, or thinks they have one 1354  60.908682
3 Has not been diagnosed with a mental condition, and does not think they any  795  35.762483
4                                                          NA / Didn't answer  167   7.512371
                                                                            x    y          %
1                                                                       EA No 4158 100.000000
2         Has been diagnosed with a mental condition, or thinks they have one 2416  58.104858
3 Has not been diagnosed with a mental condition, and does not think they any 1587  38.167388
4                                                          NA / Didn't answer  248   5.964406

Diagnosed

                                               x   y         %
1                                         EA Yes 959 100.00000
2     Has been diagnosed with a mental condition 314  32.74244
3 Has not been diagnosed with a mental condition 613  63.92075
4                             NA / Didn't answer 125  13.03441
                                               x    y          %
1                                       EA Sorta 2223 100.000000
2     Has been diagnosed with a mental condition  718  32.298695
3 Has not been diagnosed with a mental condition 1431  64.372470
4                             NA / Didn't answer  167   7.512371
                                               x    y          %
1                                          EA No 4158 100.000000
2     Has been diagnosed with a mental condition 1183  28.451178
3 Has not been diagnosed with a mental condition 2820  67.821068
4                             NA / Didn't answer  248   5.964406

Regressions

Linear

> # D$mentally_ill = Number of diagnosed mental ilnesses
> # D$mentally_ill2= Number of mental ilnesses, diagnosed + intuited
> summary(lm(D$mentally_ill ~ D$`EA ID`))

Call:
lm(formula = D$mentally_ill ~ D$`EA ID`)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
-0.5717 -0.5514 -0.4689  0.4486 10.4283 

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)     0.46890    0.01424  32.935  < 2e-16 ***
D$`EA ID`Sorta  0.08252    0.02409   3.426 0.000617 ***
D$`EA ID`Yes    0.10284    0.03283   3.132 0.001742 ** 
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 0.9008 on 7076 degrees of freedom
  (354 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.002421,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.002139 
F-statistic: 8.587 on 2 and 7076 DF,  p-value: 0.0001884
> summary(lm(D$mentally_ill2 ~ D$`EA ID`))

Call:
lm(formula = D$mentally_ill2 ~ D$`EA ID`)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
-1.3711 -1.2638 -0.2638  0.7362  9.6289 

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)     1.26380    0.02243  56.343   <2e-16 ***
D$`EA ID`Sorta  0.09637    0.03795   2.539   0.0111 *  
D$`EA ID`Yes    0.10729    0.05173   2.074   0.0381 *  
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 1.419 on 7076 degrees of freedom
  (354 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.001216,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.0009338 
F-statistic: 4.308 on 2 and 7076 DF,  p-value: 0.0135
> summary(lm(D$mentally_ill>0 ~ D$`EA ID`))

Call:
lm(formula = D$mentally_ill > 0 ~ D$`EA ID`)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
-0.3387 -0.3341 -0.2955  0.6659  0.7045 

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)    0.295528   0.007323  40.354  < 2e-16 ***
D$`EA ID`Sorta 0.038581   0.012391   3.114  0.00186 ** 
D$`EA ID`Yes   0.043199   0.016889   2.558  0.01055 *  
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 0.4633 on 7076 degrees of freedom
  (354 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.001835,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.001553 
F-statistic: 6.505 on 2 and 7076 DF,  p-value: 0.001505
> summary(lm(D$mentally_ill2>0 ~ D$`EA ID`))

Call:
lm(formula = D$mentally_ill2 > 0 ~ D$`EA ID`)

Residuals:
    Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
-0.6301 -0.6036  0.3699  0.3965  0.3965 

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)    0.603547   0.007692  78.466   <2e-16 ***
D$`EA ID`Sorta 0.026513   0.013014   2.037   0.0417 *  
D$`EA ID`Yes   0.022127   0.017738   1.247   0.2123    
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 0.4867 on 7076 degrees of freedom
  (354 observations deleted due to missingness)
Multiple R-squared:  0.0006657,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.0003832 
F-statistic: 2.357 on 2 and 7076 DF,  p-value: 0.09481

Logistic

> summary(glm(D$mentally_ill>0 ~ D$`EA ID`, family=binomial(link='logit')))

Call:
glm(formula = D$mentally_ill > 0 ~ D$`EA ID`, family = binomial(link = "logit"))

Deviance Residuals: 
    Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max  
-0.9095  -0.9018  -0.8370   1.4807   1.5614  

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
(Intercept)    -0.86868    0.03464 -25.078  < 2e-16 ***
D$`EA ID`Sorta  0.17902    0.05737   3.120  0.00181 ** 
D$`EA ID`Yes    0.19971    0.07756   2.575  0.01003 *  
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

(Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)

    Null deviance: 8797.8  on 7078  degrees of freedom
Residual deviance: 8784.8  on 7076  degrees of freedom
  (354 observations deleted due to missingness)
AIC: 8790.8

Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 4
> summary(glm(D$mentally_ill2>0 ~ D$`EA ID`, family=binomial(link='logit')))

Call:
glm(formula = D$mentally_ill2 > 0 ~ D$`EA ID`, family = binomial(link = "logit"))

Deviance Residuals: 
    Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max  
-1.4103  -1.3603   0.9612   1.0049   1.0049  

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
(Intercept)     0.42027    0.03231  13.007   <2e-16 ***
D$`EA ID`Sorta  0.11221    0.05514   2.035   0.0419 *  
D$`EA ID`Yes    0.09344    0.07517   1.243   0.2139    
---
Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

(Dispersion parameter for binomial family taken to be 1)

    Null deviance: 9439.1  on 7078  degrees of freedom
Residual deviance: 9434.4  on 7076  degrees of freedom
  (354 observations deleted due to missingness)
AIC: 9440.4

Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 4