University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2017 Dec;18:67-72. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.042. Epub 2017 Aug 8.
A large body of research in Western cultures has demonstrated the psychological and health effects of social class. This review outlines a cultural psychological approach to social stratification by comparing psychological and health manifestations of social class across Western and East Asian cultures. These comparisons suggest that cultural meaning systems shape how people make meaning and respond to material/structural conditions associated with social class, thereby leading to culturally divergent manifestations of social class. Specifically, unlike their counterparts in Western cultures, individuals of high social class in East Asian cultures tend to show high conformity and other-orientated psychological attributes. In addition, cultures differ in how social class impacts health (i.e. on which bases, through which pathways, and to what extent).
大量的西方文化研究表明了社会阶层对心理和健康的影响。本综述通过比较西方和东亚文化中社会阶层的心理和健康表现，概述了一种文化心理学的社会分层方法。这些比较表明，文化意义体系塑造了人们理解和应对与社会阶层相关的物质/结构条件的方式，从而导致社会阶层表现出文化上的差异。具体来说，与西方文化中的对应者不同，东亚文化中的高社会阶层个体往往表现出较高的从众性和其他导向的心理特征。此外，文化在社会阶层如何影响健康方面也存在差异（即在哪些基础上、通过哪些途径以及在何种程度上）。
