The relationship between subjective social class and aggression: A serial mediation model

Chen, Bing; Zuo, Youxia; Zhao, Yufang

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.036

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“…Moreover, the relationship between objective SES and reported aggression was very small. These findings are in contrast to previous research that has consistently shown that both objective and subjective SES are associated with different measures of aggression (e.g., Chen et al, 2018;Gallo & Matthews, 2003;Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, 2016, 2018). It should be noted that the present study employed a self-report measure of aggression, whereas many of the previous studies employed behavioral measures of aggression (although not all of them).…”

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“…Because participant sex and age could be associated with both, personal relative deprivation (Bettencourt & Miller, 1996;Callan, Kim, & Matthews, 2015b) and aggression (Archer, 2004;Liu, Lewis, & Evans, 2013), we also controlled for the impact of these variables. Moreover, objective and subjective SES have been shown to be associated with personal relative deprivation and aggression (e.g., Chen et al, 2018;Gallo & Matthews, 2003;Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, 2016, 2018), so we included these variables in our analyses as well.…”

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“…Previous research has shown that objective measures of SES are negatively associated with hostile inclinations (for a review, Gallo & Matthews, 2003). Likewise, individuals with low rather than high subjective SES are more prone to aggressive responding (Chen, Zuo, & Zhao, 2018;Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, 2016, 2018). Because an individual's (both objective and subjective) SES should be unlikely to change much over time, we did not expect that SES has effects on changes in aggression, but, rather, that SES is associated with aggression at Time 1.…”

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The impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time

Greitemeyer

Sagioglou

2018

The Journal of Social Psychology

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Being at a disadvantage and perceiving this predicament to be unfair are at the core of the experience of personal relative deprivation. Previous research has shown that personal relative deprivation is associated with interpersonal aggression. The present longitudinal study extended these investigations by examining the impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time. In fact, personal relative deprivation at Time 1 was associated with reported aggression at Time 2 even when controlling for the impact of aggression at Time 1. As a secondary goal, we aimed to show that the effect of personal relative deprivation (i.e., increased aggression) may spread through the participant’s social network. Egocentric networking data showed that individuals who perceive their friends as being personally deprived are more aggressive and that this relationship statistically holds when taking the individual’s level of personal relative deprivation into account. Limitations of this approach are discussed.

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The impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time

Greitemeyer

Sagioglou

2018

The Journal of Social Psychology

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“…A large number of studies have shown that the correlation between subjective social class and depression is related through a variety of psychological effects. They are mainly reflected in the following aspects: well-being (e.g., subjective well-being and health assessment) [ 22 ], life satisfaction [ 55 ], security (e.g., self-esteem and control [ 56 ], response to threats, and cognitive function [ 57 , 58 ]), sense of fairness (e.g., sense of class discrimination and stigma [ 59 ], emotion, and justice perception) [ 60 ], sense of acquisition (e.g., cultural expression and practice model [ 61 ], expected educational level [ 62 ], medical expenditures [ 63 ]), social trust (e.g., social adaptation and interpersonal trust [ 21 ]), social support (e.g., social connection [ 64 ], social support and sense of control [ 65 ], social relationship quality [ 66 ], etc.). Our results also show that people with lower subjective social class have more severe depression, which means subjective social class is significantly associated with depression.…”

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Effects of Environmental Quality Perception on Depression: Subjective Social Class as a Mediator

Zhang

2021

IJERPH

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Although the relationship between environment and public depression has aroused heated debate, the empirical research on the relationship between environmental quality perception and public depression is still relatively insufficient. This paper aims to explore the influence of environmental quality perception on public depression and the mediating role of subjective social class between environmental quality perception and public depression. Using the China Family Panel Studies data of 2016 for empirical analysis, this study’s results show that environmental quality perception has a significant effect on public depression and subjective social class also has a significant effect on public depression. In addition, we found that subjective social class can play a partial mediating role between environmental quality perception and public depression, and the intermediary effect only comes from the contribution of the perception of living environmental quality, not the perception of overall environmental quality. That is to say, the perception of living environment quality deeply affects the subjective social class, and then induces public depression. In order to alleviate the relationship between environmental quality and public depression, it is recommended that the state environmental protection department and civil affairs department strengthen the improvement of public living environment so as to promote individual subjective social class and reduce the risk of public depression. Moreover, it is suggested that research with longitudinal design and comprehensive indicators be undertaken in the future.

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“…However, given the relatively small sample size of this study (N = 156 for Study 1 and N = 201 for Study 2) and the recent rejection of representative studies 5,7 revealing low prosociality in those with high SC, the reliability of this hypothesis and result is questionable. Furthermore, research ndings that individuals with high SC are less aggressive 29,30 also call into question this hypothesis and the results. Therefore, we propose a new hypothesis regarding the association between SC and humor from a health behavior perspective.…”

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Individuals of Higher Social Class Engage in Other-Oriented and Adaptive Humor

Tsukawaki

Imura

Hirakawa

2022

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Previous research on individual social class (SC) and humor has found support for the hypothesis that those with higher SC engage in dominant and selfish humor (aggressive humor). This hypothesis is based on the well-known theory that people with high SC are selfish, but there are mixed findings regarding this theoretical perspective. In this study, SC was measured by objective measures (income and educational attainment) and subjective measures (perceived social status) and examined in relation to humor. Previous research on SC and humor has been limited, focusing only on the limited dimensions of humor (aggressive and affiliative humor). In the present study, four types of humor assessed by the Humor Styles Questionnaire and two types of humor measured by the Dual Self-Directed Humor Scale were taken into account to learn more about the relationship between SC and humor. Study 1 (N = 344) and Study 2 (N = 604) consistently showed that SC and aggressive humor are not related, and the findings of previous studies were not replicated. Rather, SC was shown to be positively associated with adaptive humor, such as other-oriented humor and humor for coping with stress.

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The relationship between subjective social class and aggression: A serial mediation model

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The impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time

The impact of personal relative deprivation on aggression over time

Effects of Environmental Quality Perception on Depression: Subjective Social Class as a Mediator

Individuals of Higher Social Class Engage in Other-Oriented and Adaptive Humor

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