The phrase "a negative link" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a connection or relationship that is unfavorable or detrimental.
Example: "The study found a negative link between excessive screen time and sleep quality among teenagers."
Alternatives: "an adverse connection" or "a detrimental relationship".
Several studies have found a negative link between corporate-tax rates and investment.Globalisation sharpens this effect.
This induces a negative link between order imbalance and subsequent price changes.
There is also a negative link between traits connected to Agreeableness and wages.
INT and CONV investors assume that a negative link between sustainable actions of companies and their financial performance exists.
For environmental product innovation and patented environmental innovations a positive relationship with environmentally concerned and a negative link with environmentally neutral stakeholders is found.
The authors expected a positive association of loneliness with depressive symptoms, a negative link between APOE ɛ2 with depressive symptoms, and a significant genotype-environment interaction between loneliness (the social environment) and APOE ɛ2 on symptoms of depression.
"Most studies find a small negative link between the total hours a child spends viewing TV and that child's academic achievement.
They find a strong positive contemporaneous link and a weaker negative link for conditional lags (see, e.g., Chan and Fong 2000; Aktas et al. 2008; Stoll 2000; Chordia et al. 2002; Chordia and Subrahmanyam 2004).
They find a robust negative link between slave trades and trust, i.e., individuals whose ancestors were more exposed to the slave trade are today less trusting.
Correlational studies and those where carotenoid availability was experimentally increased did not support a strong negative link between carotenoid and oxidative stress levels, at least among avian species [10], [43], [44].
Comparison of models (Table 3, see notes) showed that there was no evidence of a link between the success and discontinuation processes in the Parisian center, whereas there was a significant negative link in the medium-sized city center.
