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Financial Stress and Mental Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 300

Special Issue Editors

Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: stress and coping processes in couples; economic stress; immigration stress; Latinx couples; couple therapy; multicultural aspects of couple and family therapy
Department of Educational Sciences, “Stefan cel Mare” University, 720229 Suceava, Romania
Interests: stress and coping in couples and families; economic stress; individual and dyadic variables associated with relationship satisfaction and partners’ well-being; emotions and emotion-regulation in couples; family religiosity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on financial stress and mental health in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The goal is to bring together conceptual and empirical knowledge from scientific disciplines that have focused on the association between financial stress and mental health, including public health, psychology, family science, finances, and other related social science and environmental health science fields. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about economic hardship around the world, and has increased uncertainty and concerns for individuals, couples, and families about their financial circumstances. Before the pandemic, studies across different parts of the world had established a link between financial stress created by adverse economic circumstances and events (unemployment, difficulties paying bills, income reduction, etc.) and the deterioration of individual emotional well-being (e.g., depression, anxiety, irritability), parenting, and couple relationship functioning (psychological aggression, conflict, relationship dissatisfaction and instability, etc.). Poor individual mental health and relationship distress had also been associated with poor financial decision making and financial stress, suggesting a reciprocal influence between financial stress and mental health. This Special Issue seeks to include studies that can expand the existing empirical and conceptual knowledge on the association between financial stress and different areas of mental health, including individual, couple, and family functioning. Studies may include previously unexamined mediating and/or moderating factors, specific coping mechanisms, or specific populations. This Special Issue has a specific interest in including studies that have been conducted during the pandemic and/or that address issues of intersectionality (Black/African American female-headed families, transgender low-income Asian individuals, low-income Latinx couples, female frontline workers, etc.) in the link between financial stress and psychological individual and relationship well-being. Articles that describe and/or evaluate interventions specifically designed to address the association between financial stress and mental health are also of interest for this Special Issue.

Dr. Mariana Falconier
Dr. Petruta Paraschiva Rusu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • financial stress/stressor
  • economic stress/stressor
  • mental health
  • couple
  • emotional well-being
  • family
  • COVID-19
  • intersectionality

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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