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- Status anxiety theory posits that higher income inequality leads people to attribute more importance to their socioeconomic status and to worry about the position they occupy on the social ladder.
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Mar 17, 2023 · We investigated through two experimental studies (N = 1117) the causal effect of economic inequality on status anxiety and whether expected upward and downward mobility mediates this effect. In Study 1, perceived economic inequality indirectly increased status anxiety through lesser expected upward mobility.
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May 24, 2021 · These preliminary findings provide experimental evidence for the effects of economic inequality on status anxiety and the mechanism involved. Economic inequality makes people feel that they live in a society where they are constantly concerned and competing with each other for their SES.
- Davide Melita, Guillermo B. Willis, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637365
- 2021
- Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 637365.
Mar 17, 2023 · Status anxiety theory posits that higher income inequality leads people to attribute more importance to their socioeconomic status and to worry about the position they occupy on the social ladder.
Jan 1, 2022 · We find that status-anxiety fuelled consumption is associated with household debt, spatial inequalities, cycles of unsustainable consumption and longer commuting times, ultimately contributing to higher carbon emissions.
Mar 1, 2023 · In Study 1, perceived economic inequality indirectly increased status anxiety through lesser expected upward mobility. In Study 2, perceived economic inequality decreased expected upward...
income inequality lead to increasing status differentials between individuals and groups, lower levels of civic participation and social mixing and, in turn, lower levels of interpersonal trust. How does the fall in social capital affect individual health? Kawachi and Berkman (2000, p. 184) suggest that there are three main ways: first,
May 10, 2022 · The core findings are: (1) status anxiety is higher among people who earn less; (2) status anxiety is on average higher in more unequal societies; but (3) the impact of inequality on status anxiety does not have a steeper gradient in more unequal societies.
