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Watson, Roger

doi:10.7748/ns.18.29.25.s41

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“…The psychosocial aspect of wellbeing has been linked with material and socio-political aspects of change ( Leinsalu et al, 2009 ). An illustrative study has connected respondents’ anxiety to increasing social and income disparities, and to the major contrast between the financial difficulties of the majority of Poles and the abnormally high earnings of the fewer transitional “winners” ( Watson, 2004 ). In short, economic and social uncertainties have contributed to lower wellbeing in Poland ( Brzezinski, 2019 ).…”

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“…According to a 1995 survey, 85% of Poles believed that the state of health in the country had decreased substantially, and a third of respondents assessed their own health as bad or very bad ( Ostrowska, 1999 ). The country experienced an increase in psychological problems, including rising suicide rates and alcoholism ( Watson, 2004 ). The economic recession at the end of the 1990s had caused the poorest social groups to limit their utilization of expensive specialized medical services despite their evident need ( Golinowska and Sowa, 2006 ).…”

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Social Mobility, Health and Wellbeing in Poland

2021

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Recently there has been a surge of interest in the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on individuals’ health and wellbeing outcomes. However, studies on the effects of social mobility on health, using high-quality panel survey data, have almost exclusively been conducted in Western welfare democracies. To account for this gap, and using empirical data from one of the largest and most eventful post-communist countries, Poland, in this study we investigate how individuals’ origin and destination socio-economic position and social mobility are linked to self-rated health and reported psychological wellbeing. We use the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN) data to construct self-rated health and psychological wellbeing measures, origin, destination and occupational class mobility variables, and account for an extensive set of sociodemographic determinants of health. We employ diagonal reference models to distinguish social mobility effects from origin and destination effects, and account for possible health selection mechanisms. Our results suggest that there is an occupational class gradient in health in Poland and that both parental and own occupational class matter for individual health outcomes. We also find a positive reported psychological wellbeing effect for upward social mobility from the working to the professional class.

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confidence: 99%