Elmer Lara Palacios

The Social and Spatial Patterning of Stress in Canada ©2015

An individual that endures stress for a prolonged time may have negative health consequences. This study uses high life stress prevalence rates, binary logistic regression, and multilevel modelling to examine the association between the individual and neighbourhood characteristics with high life stress in Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations for both the native born and foreign born populations. The 2009-2010 cycle from the Canadian Community Health Survey and the 2006 Canadian Marginalization Index are selected to represent the individual and neighbourhood characteristics respectfully. The results show that the individual characteristics have greater association with high life stress than the neighbourhood characteristics for both the native born and foreign born populations. Additionally, the results from the multilevel models reveal that there are minimal regional differences.