| @elder1988 | Economic Stress in Lives: Developmental Perspectives | 1988 | cross-sectional | USA | 381 | children, adults, households | Family systems theory | |
| @lempers1989 | Economic Hardship, Parenting, and Distress in Adolescence | 1989 | cross-sectional | USA | 622 | highschool students, adolescents | Stress process theory | EHQ, BDI |
| @porter1990 | Testing a Model of Financial Well-Being | 1990 | cross-sectional | USA | 466 | adults | | PASTINDX |
| @voydanoff1990 | Economic Distress and Family Relations: A Review of the Eighties | 1990 | theoretical discussion | | | primary studies | Stress process theory, Family systems theory | |
| @takeuchi1991 | Economic Stress in the Family and Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems | 1991 | retrospective cohort | USA | 1377 | children | Cognitive-transactional stress theory, Stress process theory | |
| @peirce1996 | Financial stress, social support, and alcohol involvement: A longitudinal test of the buffering hypothesis in a general population survey. | 1996 | prospective cohort | USA | 1040 | households | Stress process theory | |
| @aldana1998 | Validity And Reliability Of A Financial Strain Survey | 1998 | cross-sectional | USA | 153 | adults, employed | Stress process theory | FSS |
| @bailey1998 | The Relationship of Financial Stress to Overall Stress and Satisfaction | 1998 | cross-sectional | USA | 187 | mental health professionals | | CSP |
| @joo1998 | Personal Financial Wellness and Worker Job Productivity | 1998 | cross-sectional | USA | 271 | adults, employed | Stress process theory, Double ABCX theory, Life-cycle theory of saving | |
| @krause1998 | Financial Strain, Received Support, Anticipated Support, and Depressive Symptoms in the People’s Republic of China | 1998 | | China | 2749 | adults | | CES-D, FSESM |
| @weich1998 | Poverty, unemployment, and common mental disorders: population based cohort study | 1998 | prospective cohort | United Kingdom | 7726 | adults | | |
| @bray2001 | Hardship in Australia: An Analysis of Financial Stress Indicators in the 1998-99 Australian Bureau of Statistics Household Expenditure Survey | 2001 | cross-sectional | USA | 6889 | households | | ABSFSS |
| @davis2004 | The Consequences of Financial Stress for Individuals, Families, and Society | 2004 | | | | | | |
| @oneill2006 | Financially Distressed Consumers: Their Financial Practices, Financial Well-being, and Health | 2005 | cross-sectional | USA | 3121 | adults, adolescents | | |
| @probst2005 | Economic Stressors | 2005 | theoretical discussion | | | primary studies | Self-efficacy theory | |
| @illing2006 | Measuring financial stress in a developed country: An application to Canada | 2006 | | Canada | | | | |
| @kahn2006 | Financial Strain over the Life Course and Health among Older Adults | 2006 | retrospective cohort | USA | 1167 | adults, elderly | Allostatic load theory, Stress process theory | |
| @kim2006 | Relationship between Financial Stress and Workplace Absenteeism of Credit Counseling Clients | 2006 | cross-sectional | USA | 2372 | adults, employed | | |
| @prawitz2006 | Incharge Financial Distress/Financial Well-Being Scale: Development, Administration, and Score Interpretation. | 2006 | cross-sectional | USA | 1300 | adults | | IFDFW |
| @siahpush2007 | Association of Smoking Cessation With Financial Stress and Material Well-Being: Results From a Prospective Study of a Population-Based National Survey | 2007 | prospective cohort | Australia | 5699 | adults | | |
| @yates2007 | Housing affordability and financial stress: National Research Venture 3 : housing affordability for lower income Australians | 2007 | cross-sectional | Australia | 6214 | households, adults | Family systems theory | |
| @balakrishnan2009 | The Transmission of Financial Stress From Advanced to Emerging Economies | 2009 | | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey | | | | |
| @butterworth2009 | Financial hardship, socio-economic position and depression: Results from the PATH Through Life Survey | 2009 | retrospective cohort | Australia | 6715 | adults | | GDS, SF-12 |
| @hakkio2009 | Financial stress: what is it, how can it be measured, and why does it matter? | 2009 | | USA | | | Knightian Uncertainty Theory | |
| @starrin2009 | Financial Stress, Shaming Experiences and Psychosocial Ill-Health: Studies into the Finances-Shame Model | 2009 | cross-sectional | Sweden | 5666 | adults | | GHQ-12 |
| @bradshaw2010 | Financial hardship and psychological distress: Exploring the buffering effects of religion | 2010 | cross-sectional | USA | 1140 | adults | Equity theory, Self-determination theory, Stress process theory | |
| @northern2010 | The Development, Evaluation, and Validation of a Financial Stress Scale for Undergraduate Students | 2010 | cross-sectional | USA | 177 | undergraduate students, adults | | DSS, SF-36, MILQ, FSS-CV |
| @sinclair2010 | A Multilevel Model of Economic Stress and Employee Well‐Being | 2010 | theoretical discussion | | | | Stress process theory | |
| @szanton2010 | Life-course financial strain and health in African–Americans | 2010 | cross-sectional | USA | 699 | adults, African americans, children | Cumulative disadvantage theory | TICS, CES-D |
| @cardarelli2011 | Financial stress and economic contractions | 2011 | | Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA | | | Financial Accelerator Theory | |
| @selenko2011 | Beyond debt. A moderator analysis of the relationship between perceived financial strain and mental health | 2011 | cross-sectional | Austria | 106 | adults | | |
| @hollo2012 | CISS - A Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress in the Financial System | 2012 | | EU | | | Modern Portfolio Theory, Financial Accelerator Theory | |
| @shapiro2012 | Measuring financial anxiety. | 2012 | cross-sectional | United Kingdom | 112 | adults, households | | STAI, CES-D, FAS |
| @archuleta2013 | College Students and Financial Distress: Exploring Debt, Financial Satisfaction, and Financial Anxiety | 2013 | cross-sectional | USA | 180 | adults, undergraduate students | | FAS-CV |
| @marjanovic2013 | Psychometric evaluation of the Financial Threat Scale (FTS) in the context of the great recession. | 2013 | cross-sectional | USA | 480 | undergraduate students, adults | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | FTS, BSI, GHQ-12, P-TMD, EHQ, FWBS, ICS, PSWQ, RRS, GSE |
| @zafar2013 | The Financial Toxicity of Cancer Treatment: A Pilot Study Assessing Out-of-Pocket Expenses and the Insured Cancer Patient’s Experience | 2013 | prospective cohort | USA | 258 | adults, cancer | | |
| @aslund2014 | The buffering effect of tangible social support on financial stress: influence on psychological well-being and psychosomatic symptoms in a large sample of the adult general population | 2014 | cross-sectional | Sweden | 84263 | adults | | GHQ-12 |
| @brown2014 | The existence and persistence of household financial hardship: A Bayesian multivariate dynamic logit framework | 2014 | retrospective cohort | United Kingdom | 123432 | households, adults | | |
| @desouza2014 | The development of a financial toxicity patient‐reported outcome in cancer: The COST measure | 2014 | cross-sectional | USA | 155 | cancer, adults | | COST |
| @heckman2014 | Factors Related to Financial Stress among College Students | 2014 | cross-sectional | USA | 4488 | undergraduate students, adults | Self-efficacy theory | |
| @hughes2014 | How Racial Identity Moderates the Impact of Financial Stress on Mental Health among African Americans | 2014 | cross-sectional | USA | 3571 | adults, African americans | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | CES-D, RSE, MS |
| @lim2014 | Financial Stress, Self-Efficacy, and Financial Help-Seeking Behavior of College Students | 2014 | cross-sectional | USA | 4713 | adults, undergraduate students | Cognitive-transactional stress theory, Self-efficacy theory | |
| @serido2014 | The Associations of Financial Stress and Parenting Support Factors with Alcohol Behaviors During Young Adulthood | 2014 | retrospective cohort | USA | 7159 | adolescents, adults | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | |
| @wei2014 | The Relationships Between Family Financial Stress, Mental Health Problems, Child Rearing Practice, and School Involvement Among Taiwanese Parents with School-Aged Children | 2014 | cross-sectional | Taiwan | 431 | adults, caregivers, households | Simple ABCX theory | BSRS |
| @drentea2015 | Where Does Debt Fit in the Stress Process Model? | 2015 | cross-sectional | USA | 1463 | households | Stress process theory | CES-D |
| @grable2015 | Financial Anxiety, Physiological Arousal, and Planning Intention | 2015 | cross-sectional | USA | 20 | adults | | FAS-CV |
| @huotari2015 | Measuring Financial Stress A Country Specific Stress Index for Finland | 2015 | | | | | | |
| @johar2015 | Thinking about financial deprivation: Rumination and decision making among the poor | 2015 | cross-sectional | USA | 194530437 | adults, employed | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | |
| @montpetit2015 | FINANCIAL STRESS, NEIGHBORHOOD STRESS, AND WELL‐BEING: MEDIATIONAL AND MODERATIONAL MODELS | 2015 | cross-sectional | USA | 855 | adults | Ecological systems theory, Cognitive-transactional stress theory | |
| @nazlioglu2015 | Oil prices and financial stress: A volatility spillover analysis | 2015 | | USA | | | | |
| @oet2015 | The Financial Stress Index: Identification of Systemic Risk Conditions | 2015 | | | | | | CSFI |
| @vermeulen2015 | Financial Stress Indices and Financial Crises | 2015 | | | | | | |
| @adams2016 | The relationship between financial strain, perceived stress, psychological symptoms, and academic and social integration in undergraduate students | 2016 | cross-sectional | USA | 157 | undergraduate students, adults | | FSESM, PSS, ICCEMS, BSI |
| @dunn2016 | CONSUMER DEBT STRESS, CHANGES IN HOUSEHOLD DEBT, AND THE GREAT RECESSION | 2016 | retrospective cohort | USA | 19936 | adults | | DSS |
| @lazarevic2016 | Relations Between Economic Well-Being, Family Support, Community Attachment, and Life Satisfaction Among LGBQ Adults | 2016 | cross-sectional | USA | 332 | adults, LGBT | Minority stress theory, Stress process theory | |
| @sinclair2016 | Money Matters: Recommendations for Financial Stress Research in Occupational Health Psychology | 2016 | theoretical discussion | China | | primary studies | Stress-strain-outcome theory, Cognitive-transactional stress theory | |
| @sturgeon2016 | The Psychosocial Context of Financial Stress: Implications for Inflammation and Psychological Health | 2016 | cross-sectional | USA | 680 | adults | | PERI, SF-36, WHO-5, PANAS, MHI |
| @wilkinson2016 | Financial Strain and Mental Health Among Older Adults During the Great Recession | 2016 | retrospective cohort | USA | 5366 | adults | Cumulative inequality theory | BAI, CES-D |
| @duprey2017 | Dating systemic financial stress episodes in the EU countries | 2017 | | EU | | | | |
| @evgenidis2017 | Asymmetric effects of the international transmission of US financial stress. A threshold-VAR approach | 2017 | | EU | | | Financial Accelerator Theory | |
| @mejiacordova2017 | Relación entre Estrés Financiero y el Bienestar de los Empleados | 2017 | cross-sectional | Mexico | 183 | adults, employed | Double ABCX theory | |
| @park2017 | Financial Hardship, Social Support, and Perceived Stress | 2017 | cross-sectional | USA | 700 | adults | Simple ABCX theory | |
| @prentice2017 | How financial strain affects health: Evidence from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey | 2017 | retrospective cohort | Netherlands | 43226 | households, adults | | CFC |
| @taylor2017 | The Impacts of Household Financial Stress, Resilience, Social Support, and Other Adversities on the Psychological Distress of Western Sydney Parents | 2017 | cross-sectional | Australia | 439 | caregivers, households | | SCI, K10, CDRISC2, PSSS, SDQ |
| @carr2018 | Suicidality among gambling helpline callers: A consideration of the role of financial stress and conflict | 2018 | cross-sectional | USA | 202 | adults, gamblers | | |
| @oksanen2018 | Problem gambling and psychological distress: a cross-national perspective on the mediating effect of consumer debt and debt problems among emerging adults | 2018 | cross-sectional | Finland, USA | 2073 | adults, gamblers | | SOGS, GHQ-12 |
| @tran2018 | Financial Stress, Social Supports, Gender, and Anxiety During College: A Stress-Buffering Perspective | 2018 | cross-sectional | USA | 304 | adults, undergraduate students | Cognitive-transactional stress theory, Stress process theory | GAD7, KSS, FAS-CV |
| @assari2019 | Race, Depression, and Financial Distress in a Nationally Representative Sample of American Adults | 2019 | cross-sectional | USA | 4461 | adults, African americans | Fundamental cause theory | CIDI |
| @baker2019 | Student Loan Debt and Financial Stress: Implications for Academic Performance | 2019 | cross-sectional | USA | 299 | | | |
| @breunig2019 | Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians | 2019 | cross-sectional | Australia | 5117 | adults, indigenous, couples | | |
| @falconier2019 | Initial validation of the dyadic coping inventory for financial stress. | 2019 | cross-sectional | USA | 132 | couples, adults | Systemic‐transactional theory, Cognitive-transactional stress theory | DCIFS, DAS, CTS‐R |
| @hamilton2019 | Debt stress, psychological distress and overall health among adults in Ontario | 2019 | cross-sectional | Canada | 8045 | adults | | K6 |
| @mahdzan2019 | Determinants of Subjective Financial Well-Being Across Three Different Household Income Groups in Malaysia | 2019 | cross-sectional | Malaysia | 1867 | adults, households | | SFWBS, PASTINDX |
| @monin2019 | The OFR Financial Stress Index | 2019 | | | | | | |
| @tucker-seeley2019 | Material–Psychosocial–Behavioral Aspects of Financial Hardship: A Conceptual Model for Cancer Prevention | 2019 | theoretical discussion | | | | | |
| @choi2020 | The links between job insecurity, financial well‐being and financial stress: A moderated mediation model | 2020 | cross-sectional | USA | 1145 | adults | Simple ABCX theory | FWBS, APRFSS |
| @debruijn2020 | Determinants of financial worry and rumination | 2020 | cross-sectional | Netherlands | 1040 | households | | FWR |
| @digiacomo2020 | Financial stress experienced by informal carers of adults with a chronic disease: Results from an Australian population‐based cross‐sectional survey | 2020 | cross-sectional | USA | 988 | households, caregivers | | ABSFSS |
| @frankham2020 | Psychological factors associated with financial hardship and mental health: A systematic review | 2020 | systematic review | | 44 | primary studies | Stress buffer theory, Stress process theory | |
| @heo2020 | APR Financial Stress Scale: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measurement | 2020 | cross-sectional | USA | 688 | adults | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | FAS-CV, APRFSS, PANAS |
| @ilesanmi2020 | Financial Stress Index and Economic Activity in South Africa: New Evidence | 2020 | | South Africa | | | | |
| @kosminsky2020 | Financial stress and pain, what follows an economic crisis? Integrative review | 2020 | systematic review | USA, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Greece | 9 | primary studies | | |
| @sharif2020 | Psychometric Evaluation of the Comprehensive Score for Financial Toxicity Scale Among Iranian Cancer Patients | 2020 | cross-sectional | Iran | 398 | adults, cancer | | COST |
| @swanton2020 | Debt stress partly explains the relationship between problem gambling and comorbid mental health problems | 2020 | cross-sectional | Australia | 309 | adults, gamblers | | K6, DASS-21, PWI, PG-FIM, DSS |
| @weissman2020 | Sociodemographic Characteristics, Financial Worries and Serious Psychological Distress in U.S. Adults | 2020 | cross-sectional | USA | 24126 | adults | | K6 |
| @artazcoz2021 | Financial Strain and Health Status Among European Workers: Gender and Welfare State Inequalities | 2021 | cross-sectional | Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Sweden | 26381 | adults | | WHO-5 |
| @friedline2021 | Families’ Financial Stress & Well-Being: The Importance of the Economy and Economic Environments | 2021 | theoretical discussion | USA | 23 | primary studies | | |
| @kremer2021 | Measuring Systemic Financial Stress and its Impact on the Macroeconomy | 2021 | | USA, EU | | | | |
| @lindberg2021 | Financial Stress and Subjective Wellbeing among Children -Evidence from Finland | 2021 | cross-sectional | Finland | 3254 | children | | RCA |
| @lopezalvarado2021 | Factors Associated With Financial Stressors, Financial Stress, and Financial Behaviors | 2021 | cross-sectional | USA | 5252 | adults | Simple ABCX theory | |
| @marshall2021 | The price of mental well-being in later life: the role of financial hardship and debt | 2021 | cross-sectional | USA | 13393 | adults | | CES-D, BAI |
| @muggleton2021 | The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in big financial data | 2021 | retrospective cohort | United Kingdom | 6616708 | adults, gamblers | | |
| @mundra2021 | Evaluating financial stress indicators: evidence from Indian data | 2021 | | India | | | Real Option Theory | |
| @rahman2021 | The role of financial behaviour, financial literacy, and financial stress in explaining the financial well-being of B40 group in Malaysia | 2021 | cross-sectional | Malaysia | 412 | adults | | PASTINDX |
| @tito-betancur2021 | Escala de estrés financiero (EFEmp-Cov19): Evidencias iniciales de validez y confiabilidad en pequeños y medianos empresarios peruanos | 2021 | cross-sectional | Peru | 278 | adults, enterpreneurs | | EEF |
| @vieira2021 | Loss of financial well-being in the COVID-19 pandemic: Does job stability make a difference? | 2021 | cross-sectional | Brazil | 1222 | employed, adults | | FAS-CV |
| @viseu2021 | Coping and social support as moderators: Relationship between financial threat and negative psychological outcomes | 2021 | cross-sectional | Portugal | 729 | adults | Proactive Coping Theory, Cognitive-transactional stress theory | FTS, DASS-21, PCI, IPES |
| @wickrama2021 | Midlife Marital and Financial Stress and the Progression of Later-Life Health Problems for Husbands and Wives | 2021 | | USA | 508 | adults, couples, elderly | Simple ABCX theory, Family systems theory | SCL-90-R |
| @drummo2022 | Comparison of two validated instruments to measure financial hardship in cancer survivors: comprehensive score for financial toxicity (COST) versus personal financial wellness (PFW) scale. | 2022 | cross-sectional | USA | 116 | adults, cancer | | COST, IFDFW |
| @fan2022 | A Structural Determinants Framework for Financial Well-Being | 2022 | cross-sectional | USA | 16725 | adults | | |
| @guan2022 | Financial stress and depression in adults: A systematic review | 2022 | systematic review | International | 40 | primary studies | Social causation theory, Psychological stress theory, , Social selection theory | |
| @koomson2022 | Gambling and Financial Stress | 2022 | retrospective cohort | Australia | 30728 | adults, gamblers, households | | PGSI, ABSFSS |
| @loibl2022 | The role of consumer and mortgage debt for financial stress | 2022 | retrospective cohort | USA | 10074 | adults, elderly | Stress process theory, Strength and vulnerability integration theory | |
| @mansor2022 | Analysing the Predictors of Financial Stress and Financial Well-Being among the Bottom 40 Percent (B40) Households in Malaysia. | 2022 | cross-sectional | Malaysia | 1088 | adults | | |
| @neves2022 | Credit, output and financial stress: A non‐linear LVSTAR application to Brazil | 2022 | | Brazil | | | | |
| @ozyuksel2022 | Financial Stress Relationship with Work Life and Financial Well-Being | 2022 | cross-sectional | Turkey | 283 | adults | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | IFDFW, GAD-7, BRS, WPS |
| @phillips2022 | Household Financial Stress and Financial Wellbeing in Australia | 2022 | cross-sectional | Australia | | households, adults | | ABSFSS |
| @vandijk2022 | The Psychological Inventory of Financial Scarcity (PIFS): A psychometric evaluation | 2022 | cross-sectional | Netherlands | 12249 | enterpreneurs, undergraduate students, adults | Scarcity theory, Cognitive-transactional stress theory | AEFI, IPIP, PIFS |
| @xiao2022 | The Able Worry More? Debt Delinquency, Financial Capability, and Financial Stress | 2022 | cross-sectional | USA | 19816 | adults | Cognitive-transactional stress theory, Life-cycle theory of saving | |
| @alhomsi2023 | Financial Hardship and Psychological Distress During the Pandemic: A Nationally Representative Survey of Major Racial-Ethnic Groups in the United States | 2023 | cross-sectional | USA | 5500 | adults | Allostatic load theory | PHQ-4, PSS |
| @chavleishvili2023 | Measuring Systemic Financial Stress and its Risks for Growth | 2023 | | USA, EU | | | Modern Portfolio Theory | |
| @ryu2023 | The Relationship Between Financial Worries and Psychological Distress Among U.S. Adults | 2023 | cross-sectional | USA | 22682 | adults | Stress process theory, Cognitive-transactional stress theory | K6 |
| @sergeyev2023 | The Economics of Financial Stress | 2023 | cross-sectional | USA | 10000 | adults, households | | |
| @sorgente2023 | Are Financial Well-Being and Financial Stress the Same Construct? Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Study | 2023 | prospective cohort | Italy | 158 | adults | Prospect Theory | |
| @surachman2023 | The association between material-psychological-behavioral framework of financial hardship and markers of inflammation: a cross-sectional study of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Refresher cohort | 2023 | cross-sectional | USA | 3106 | adults | | FHS |
| @tito-betancur2023 | Adaptation and validation of the financial stress scale in social conflict contexts: a study conducted with small and medium-sized Peruvian entrepreneurs | 2023 | cross-sectional | Peru | 2242 | adults, enterpreneurs | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | ESECPS |
| @amonhaemanon2024 | Financial stress and gambling motivation: the importance of financial literacy | 2024 | cross-sectional | Thailand | 741 | adults, gamblers | Prospect Theory | |
| @bonato2024 | Financial stress and realized volatility: The case of agricultural commodities | 2024 | | USA | | | Heterogeneous Market Hypothesis | |
| @danahy2024 | Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources | 2024 | cross-sectional | USA | 25310 | adults, undergraduate students | Stress process theory | |
| @fava2024 | Forecasting international financial stress: The role of climate risks | 2024 | | Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, USA | | | Rare Disasters Theory, Modern Portfolio Theory | |
| @ploszaj2024 | Stress or Education: The Relationship Between Financial Literacy and Financial Stress | 2024 | retrospective cohort | Australia | 10060 | adults, households | Life-cycle theory of saving | ABSFSS |
| @rosso2024 | Do managers need to worry about employees’ financial stress? A review of two decades of research | 2024 | systematic review | | 136 | primary studies | Cognitive-transactional stress theory, Stress process theory | |
| @simonse2024 | Economic predictors of the subjective experience of financial stress | 2024 | cross-sectional | Netherlands | 1114 | adults | Cognitive-transactional stress theory | PIFS |
| @spoelma2024 | Financial stress and leadership behavior: The role of leader gender. | 2024 | cross-sectional | | 320 | adults, employed, enterpreneurs | Social role theory, Tend-and-befriend theory | PCS, ASS |
| @warren2024 | Financial Health Pulse 2024: U.S. Trends Report on Diverging Financial Health Indicators | 2024 | prospective cohort | USA | 7245 | adults, households | | |
| @wei2024 | The Relationship Between Financial Stress and Job Performance in China: The Role of Work Engagement and Emotional Exhaustion | 2024 | cross-sectional | China | 309 | adults, employed | Job demands-resources theory | JPS, WES, MBI-GS |
| @andriansyah2025 | Financial Stress Studies: What Can We Learn From the Latest Trends? SDG Improvement Effort | 2025 | systematic review | | 160 | primary studies | | |
| @chavleishvili2025 | CISS of death: measuring financial crises in real time | 2025 | | USA, EU | | | | |
| @fpcanada2025 | Financial Stress Index 2025 | 2025 | prospective cohort | Canada | 2010 | households, adults | | |
| @hernandez-perez2025 | Uncovering the factors of financial well-being: the role of self-control, self-efficacy, and financial hardship | 2025 | cross-sectional | Spain | 8554 | adults | Self-efficacy theory, Self-regulation theory, Behavioral life-cycle hypothesis | |
| @jackson2025 | Paying the price: Financial hardship and its association with psychological distress among different population groups in the midst of Great Britain’s cost-of-living crisis | 2025 | cross-sectional | England | 7027 | adults | | K6, AUDIT-C |
| @jeworrek2025 | Inflation concerns and financial stress | 2025 | cross-sectional | Germany | 1818 | adults | | |
| @kaastra2025 | Financial Health Indicator: Understanding the impact of our offerings on the financial health of our customers in The Netherlands | 2025 | prospective cohort | Netherlands | | adults | | |
| @kareholt2025 | Midlife financial stress and cognitive and physical impairments in older age: The role of potentially modifying factors | 2025 | cross-sectional | Sweden | 829 | adults, elderly | | |
| @rooj2025 | The impact of financial stress on consumer confidence: evidence from survey data | 2025 | | India | | | Prospect Theory | |
| @samuel2025 | Financial strain measures and associations with adult health: A systematic literature review | 2025 | systematic review | USA | 316 | primary studies | | |
| @sisay2025 | Assessment of Financial Literacy and Financial Stress on Online Problematic Gambling Behaviour: In case of Jimma Town, South Western Ethiopia | 2025 | cross-sectional | Ethiopia | 385 | adults, gamblers | | PGSI |