Kim Younoh, Radoias Vlad
Sam Houston State University, USA.
J Health Psychol. 2021 Mar;26(4):595-604. doi: 10.1177/1359105319828137. Epub 2019 Feb 15.
We study the role of subjective social status on health and its correlates, with an emphasis on the predictive power of early-life conditions on subjective social status. A well-established literature links early-life conditions to later-life objective measures of socioeconomic status, but little attention has been paid to their effects on subjective socioeconomic status. We find that socioeconomic factors during childhood are important predictors of subjective social status, even after controlling for contemporaneous socioeconomic conditions. This shows an additional psychological and behavioral channel through which early-life conditions influence later outcomes and which has not been yet studied in sufficient detail.
我们研究主观社会地位对健康及其相关因素的作用，重点关注早年生活状况对主观社会地位的预测能力。大量已确立的文献将早年生活状况与晚年社会经济地位的客观衡量指标联系起来，但很少有人关注它们对主观社会经济地位的影响。我们发现，即使在控制了同期社会经济状况之后，童年时期的社会经济因素仍是主观社会地位的重要预测指标。这表明了早年生活状况影响后期结果的另一条心理和行为途径，而这一途径尚未得到充分详细的研究。
