How does personal relative deprivation affect mental health among the older adults in China? Evidence from panel data analysis

Lyu, Shoujun; Sun, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.084

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“…This study also provided evidence to support the RIH in rural and urban Chinese older populations. The result reported a negative association between relative deprivation and SRH was in line with previous studies in China among adults and older populations ( 52 , 53 ). An explanation of why relative deprivation in income may lead to poorer health status is the concept of allostatic load ( 54 , 55 ).…”

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Income, Relative Deprivation and the Self-Rated Health of Older People in Urban and Rural China

Qin

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: Substantial evidence indicated that absolute income is directly associated with health. Few studies have, however, examined if relative income may be equally associated with health. This study aimed to investigate the association between absolute income/relative deprivation (RD) and self-rated health (SRH). We also investigated whether the urban-rural difference was existing in these associations.Methods: Using cross-sectional data of 7,070 participants in the Shandong Family Health Service Survey of older people, this study applied binary logistic model and semi-parametric model to estimate the effect of absolute income and relative deprivation on SRH of older people. The Kakwani Index was used as a measure of relative deprivation at the individual level.Results: Absolute income has a significant positive effect on the SRH among both urban and rural older people. When considered RD as a variable, both absolute income and RD have negative significant effects on SRH among all older people. In addition, the negative effect of RD on rural elderly is more pronounced than that of urban older populations. Semi-parametric regression results show that there was a complex non-linear relationship between income and SRH. Psychological distress substantially attenuated the association between relative deprivation and SRH.Conclusions: Relative deprivation is negatively associated with self-rated health in both urban and rural older people after controlling the absolute income. RD may partly explain the association between income inequality and worse health status. Compared with the urban elderly, the effect of income-based relative deprivation on SRH was more pronounced among the rural elderly, and more care should be given to the lower income and rural older populations.

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Income, Relative Deprivation and the Self-Rated Health of Older People in Urban and Rural China

Qin

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…Third, higher income resident groups can better mitigate the reinforcing effects of relative income deprivation on psychological capital deprivation and health inequalities compared to lower income groups, where the moderating effect on physical health is more significant. The findings are consistent with those of Lyu and Sun (2020). Since the absolute income of rural residents has a significant contribution to health status, on the one hand, we can increase the added value of agricultural products by increasing the income sources of rural residents, providing advanced technical support and working conditions for agricultural production, gradually moving down labor-intensive industries to create more labor jobs, reducing the cost of increasing income for rural residents, broadening the marketing channels of agricultural products, and extending the industrial chain of agricultural products.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The absolute income hypothesis theory is an important perspective for understanding the psychological decision-making and behavior of relative income deprivation ( Mackenbach, 2019 ), focusing on the differences in decision-making and behavior of households in different bands of absolute income ( Li et al, 2022 ; Wang et al, 2022 ; Zhou et al, 2023 ). However, little attention has been paid to the moderating role of different bands of absolute per capita household income in the RD’s impact on health inequalities among rural residents ( Lyu and Sun, 2020 ). Overall, rural households in different ranges of household income differ in terms of demographics, employment preferences, and capital accumulation, and may show variability in health care investment when RD increases ( Hastings, 2019 ; Yang X. Y. et al, 2019 ).…”

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Influences of relative deprivation on health inequality of rural residents in China: A moderated mediation model

Tao

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Analyzing the relationship between individual relative deprivation and rural residents’ health inequality is a deepening of the research on the social impact of individual relative deprivation. On the theoretical basis of the absolute and relative income hypothesis, using the data of China Family Panel Studies in 2018, taking other residents in the village as the reference group, this paper selects the relative income deprivation and absolute income to comprehensively quantify the generalized impact of farmers’ income gap, introduces the psychological capital guidance mechanism, and constructs a moderated-mediation model for the impact of relative deprivation on the health inequality of rural residents in China from the three dimensions of self-assessment of health, mental health and physical health. The estimation results of the multi-layer model show that the relative income deprivation of rural residents has a significant impact on health inequality, among which the impact of mental health is the strongest. Compared with physical health, the mediated transmission of psychological capital has a more significant impact between the relative deprivation of rural residents and mental health. Compared with low-income groups, high-income residents can better alleviate the negative effect of income relative deprivation on psychological capital poverty and health inequality, and the regulatory effect on physical health is most significant. Therefore, China can improve the health of the rural poor through fiscal policies such as improving the tax system and strengthening the supervision of various government funds.

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“…Personal relative deprivation refers to the judgment that one is worse off compared with some referent target and the accompanying perception that one’s relatively disadvantaged situation is undeserved (Smith & Huo, 2014; Smith, Pettigrew, Pippin & Bialosiewicz, 2012). Previous studies have demonstrated that personal relative deprivation has many unfavorable consequences, such as poorer mental health and cognitive function (Lyu & Sun, 2020; Smith, Ryan, Jaurique & Duffau, 2020; Zhou & Qin, 2018) and lower subjective well‐being (Jin, 2016). Due to the aversive state of personal relative deprivation, individuals are often motivated to allay it through a variety of behaviors, even deviating from their moral principles to achieve what they feel they deserve (Callan, Shead & Olson, 2011).…”

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How personal relative deprivation influences moral disengagement: The role of malicious envy and Honesty–Humility

Zhao

Zhang

2021

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Scant research has investigated the potential influence of personal relative deprivation on moral disengagement, and little is known regarding the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Inspired by relative deprivation theory, this study proposed a moderated mediation model to explore the relationship between personal relative deprivation and moral disengagement by examining the mediating role of malicious envy and the moderating role of Honesty-Humility. Five hundred and eighty-nine Chinese adults completed anonymous measures of personal relative deprivation, malicious envy, Honesty-Humility, and moral disengagement. Results revealed that personal relative deprivation was positively correlated with moral disengagement and that malicious envy fully mediated this relationship. Moderated mediation analysis indicated that Honesty-Humility moderated the relationship between personal relative deprivation and malicious envy and that between malicious envy and moral disengagement. Specifically, both relationships became weaker for adults with higher levels of Honesty-Humility. These findings not only highlight the importance of identifying the underlying mechanisms between personal relative deprivation and moral disengagement, but also provide valuable implications for the effective prevention and mitigation of moral disengagement.

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How does personal relative deprivation affect mental health among the older adults in China? Evidence from panel data analysis

Cited by 28 publications

References 44 publications

Income, Relative Deprivation and the Self-Rated Health of Older People in Urban and Rural China

Income, Relative Deprivation and the Self-Rated Health of Older People in Urban and Rural China

Influences of relative deprivation on health inequality of rural residents in China: A moderated mediation model

How personal relative deprivation influences moral disengagement: The role of malicious envy and Honesty–Humility

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