How Does One’s Background Determine Their Mental State?

Mental health issues have become very prevalent in recent times, and although significant progress has been made in terms of treatment in the form of counseling, medication, and other methods, in order to truly find out the root cause of many mental health issues, a correlation has to be drawn between one’s mental state and another factor, such as family history, age, work environment, etc. It is also beneficial to correlate one’s mental state with a multitude of factors to see the compilation.

Is there a correlation between one’s mental health status and one’s Age, Family History, Workplace Environment, or other aspects about one’s life? This paper answers this question by using responses to a survey that over 1000 people took. The participants of this survey were of diverse backgrounds and had varying answers. Models such as Logistic Regression, the Decision Tree Classifier, and the SVC model were used to produce correlations. The results indicate that there is a positive correlation between one’s family history of mental health and one’s current mental state, and that there is a negative correlation between one’s work interference and one’s current mental state, among others.

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