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Attached information on paper by Archan Singh-Manoux, Nancy Adler and Michael Marmot, from latest issue of Social Science and Medicine which may be of interest to some of you
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David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care
Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study, Pages Social Science and Medicine Vol 56(3):1321-1333
Archana Singh-Manoux, Nancy E. Adler and Michael G. Marmot
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VBF-45S9BJ2-3/1/b037dbba3e588425a40d5200c592f3ad
Abstract
The purpose of this study was twofold--(1) investigate the role of subjective social status as a predictor of ill-health, with a further exploration of the extent to which this relationship could be accounted for by conventional measures of socioeconomic position; (2) examine the determinants of a relatively new measure of subjective social status used in this study. A 10 rung self-anchoring scale was used to measure subjective social status in the Whitehall II study, a prospective cohort study of London-based civil service employees. Results indicate that subjective status is a strong predictor of ill-health, and that education, occupation and income do not explain this relationship fully for all the health measures examined. The results provide further support for the multidimensional nature of both social inequality and health. Multiple regression shows subjective status to be determined by occupational position, education, household income, satisfaction with standard of living, and feeling of financial security regarding the future. The results suggest that subjective social status reflects the cognitive averaging of standard markers of socioeconomic situation and is free of psychological biases.
Author Keywords: Subjective status; Inequalities in health; Whitehall; Occupation; Income; Education, UK
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