Subjective social mobility and health in Germany

Präg, Patrick; Gugushvili, Alexi

doi:10.1080/14616696.2021.1887916

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“…We consider this measure to be particularly appropriate for our study as it is able to capture even relatively small changes in young adults’ health. This is especially important in the context of social mobility where the sensitivity of health outcome measures has yielded in mixed results [ 32 , 72 ]. For more detailed descriptive information about each employed component of AL index, refer to supporting information, S1 Table .…”

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Socioeconomic position, social mobility, and health selection effects on allostatic load in the United States

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The contemporaneous association between higher socioeconomic position and better health is well established. Life course research has also demonstrated a lasting effect of childhood socioeconomic conditions on adult health and well-being. Yet, little is known about the separate health effects of intergenerational mobility—moving into a different socioeconomic position than one’s parents—among early adults in the United States. Most studies on the health implications of mobility rely on cross-sectional datasets, which makes it impossible to differentiate between health selection and social causation effects. In addition, understanding the effects of social mobility on health at a relatively young age has been hampered by the paucity of health measures that reliably predict disease onset. Analysing 4,713 respondents aged 25 to 32 from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health’s Waves I and IV, we use diagonal reference models to separately identify the effects of socioeconomic origin and destination, as well as social mobility on allostatic load among individuals in the United States. Using a combined measure of educational and occupational attainment, and accounting for individuals’ initial health, we demonstrate that in addition to health gradient among the socially immobile, individuals’ socioeconomic origin and destination are equally important for multi-system physiological dysregulation. Short-range upward mobility also has a positive and significant association with health. After mitigating health selection concerns in our observational data, this effect is observed only among those reporting poor health before experiencing social mobility. Our findings move towards the reconciliation of two theoretical perspectives, confirming the positive effect of upward mobility as predicted by the “rags to riches” perspective, while not contradicting potential costs associated with more extensive upward mobility experiences as predicted by the dissociative thesis.

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“…Covariates included dummy variables for the countries Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (England was the reference category), age (24 years and younger, 25-44 years, 45-64 years, 65 years and older), gender (female = 1 vs. male = 0), race (Non-White = 1 vs. White = 0), and living with partner (yes = 1 vs. no = 0). Further, social class was accounted for based on a collapsed version of the NS-SEC social class scheme (working class, intermediate, professional) (Rose and Pevalin, 2003), an established measure of social class in the United Kingdom (Präg and Richards, 2019) and a known predictor of mental health (Gugushvili and Präg, 2021;Präg and Gugushvili, 2021). Monthly earnings (log-transformed and mean-imputed), a dummy variable indicating an income loss of 15% or more during the pandemic, and two dummy variables to adjust for missing values in the previous earnings variables were also included in the models.…”

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Heterogeneous Mental Health Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom

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Praeg

2021

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Aim. The COVID-19 pandemic and the mitigation measures by governments have upended the economic and social lives of many, leading to widespread psychological distress. However, how distress developed during the pandemic and who was most affected is poorly understood. We explore heterogeneity in trajectories of psychological distress during the first six months of the pandemic in the United Kingdom and relate this heterogeneity to socio-demographic and health factors. Subjects and Methods. We analyze six waves of longitudinal, nationally representative survey data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (N = 15,218), covering the first lockdown in 2020. First, latent class mixture modelling (LCCM) is used to identify trajectories of psychological distress. Second, associations of the trajectories with covariates are tested with multinomial logistic regressions. Results. We find four different trajectories of distress: continuously low, continuously moderate, temporarily elevated, and continuously elevated distress. One-fifth of the population experienced severely elevated risks of distress. Long-term exposure was highest among younger people, women, those who lost income, and those with previous health conditions or COVID-19 symptoms. Conclusion. Given the threat of persistent stress on health, policy measures should be sensitized to the unintended yet far-reaching consequences of non-pharmaceutical interventions.

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“…Although we know less about the direction of causality. 2 Furthermore, the literature also suggests that threats to status and loss of status or downward mobility are associated with worse mental health outcomes (Gugushvili et al, 2019; Präg and Gugushvili, 2021; Simandan, 2018). While it is relatively straightforward to imagine that individual’s social status would be associated with mental health outcomes—why would living in a context where SSS is more unequally distributed be linked with depression?…”

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Social status inequality and depression in Europe

Paškov

Richards

2021

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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It is theorized that income inequality is an indicator of status inequality and should therefore be associated with adverse health outcomes. In this article, we propose a novel way to capture status inequality more directly by measuring the distribution of self-perceived status in a society. We investigate whether status inequality in a society is associated with depression in the population. We show, first, that there is only a moderate association between subjective social status inequality and income inequality. Second, we provide evidence that depression is higher in countries with higher status inequality and that our novel measure of status inequality is more strongly associated with depression than the conventionally used income inequality measure. However, results are susceptible to influential country cases.

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Subjective social mobility and health in Germany

Cited by 19 publications

References 64 publications

Socioeconomic position, social mobility, and health selection effects on allostatic load in the United States

Socioeconomic position, social mobility, and health selection effects on allostatic load in the United States

Heterogeneous Mental Health Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom

Social status inequality and depression in Europe

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