[Institutionalised Pre-School Childcare and Reported Maltreatment: A Survey in East Germany].

Child abuse increases the risk of adult mental health problems. Limited research explores the association of early institutional childhood care in the GDR with experienced childhood abuse and mediates anxiety and depression in adulthood. The sample includes N=1743 individuals born in the GDR (1949-1983).

How socio-political change is associated with the number of individually reported negative life events: a population-based study using the German reunification 1989/1990 as an example.

Background: Socio-political change often leads to disruptions in employment and social networks, which can exacerbate health issues and increase mortality rates. These consequences are likely observed as an increase in negative life events (NLEs), serving as indicators of the broader social and health impacts. Using the German reunification in 1989/1990 as an example, this study investigates changes in reported numbers of NLEs and differences regarding sociodemographic characteristics.

Early Childhood Care in the Former East Germany and Mental Stress in Adulthood.

Background: It is still debated in Germany whether early childhood care outside the family might cause mental stress in adulthood. In the German Democratic Republic (GDR-the former East Germany before unification), children were often cared for outside the family from a very early age.

Methods: To determine the relation between early childhood care outside the family and mental stress in adulthood, we carried out a survey among 1575 persons who were born and socialized in the GDR.

Explorative analyses on spatial differences in the desire for social distance toward people with mental illness in a diverging city.

Introduction: Stigma is an individual and societal process based on attitudes and power and relates to both spatial disparities and social distinction. In this study, we examined differences in desire for social distance toward people with mental illness within a city using social and spatial information.

Methods: ANOVAs and Scheffé tests analyzed varying desires for social distance toward people with mental illness within Leipzig (East Germany).

[Life events related to the German reunification and their associations with psychosocial health in a sample of northeast Germany].

The aim of the present study was to investigate (1) the type and frequency of reported life events of the East German population related to the German reunification and (2) their associations with psychosocial health. Data of 2247 participants of the Study of Health in Pomerania was used.These qualitative responses were analysed using quantitative content analysis.