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Nov 1, 2019 · According to the status anxiety hypothesis, income inequality reduces well-being by increasing how much people care about social status and social comparison. We identify three... We describe, critique, and develop the status anxiety hypothesis of income inequality.
- Lukasz Walasek, Gordon D. A. Brown
- 2019
Jun 4, 2014 · This article sets out strong and weak forms of the hypothesis and then presents three predictions concerning the structuring of ‘status anxiety’ at the individual level given different levels of national income inequality and varying individual income.
- Richard Layte, Christopher T. Whelan
- 2014
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- Self–Report Measures
- UG Embedded Measures
The sample size was based on an a priori analysis of power conducted with G*Power (Faul et al. 2007). Our analysis determined that a minimum sample of 105 participants could provide enough statistical power (1 − β = 0.90) to detect a medium–sized effect (η2= 0.06) with the given parameters: three subgroups, two measurements (fair and unfair offers)...
Social Anxiety
Participants’ level of social anxiety was assessed with the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale—Self–Report (LSAS–SR; Baker et al. 2002; Fresco et al. 2001; Liebowitz 1987; Oakman et al. 2003). The LSAS–SR is a 24–item scale commonly used in both research and practice as a screening tool for social anxiety. The LSAS–SR consists of 2 subscales corresponding to Social Fears and Avoidance of social situations. In this study, we used a global score totalling fear and avoidance for all 24 items. The Al...
Depressed Mood
As depressed mood is the most frequent comorbidity among people with SA, with comorbidity estimates ranging from 15% to 33% (Belzer and Schneier 2004; Zimmerman and Chelminski 2003), we decided to include the confounding effects of depressed mood in the study design. Moreover, depression effects are well documented in the UG literature (Robson et al. 2020) which can conceal or cancel out possible anxiety effects. Participants’ tendency toward depressed mood was assessed by means of the Beck D...
Justice Sensitivity
Personality trait–like differences in perceived unfairness were measured with the Justice Sensitivity Inventory (JSI; Schmitt et al. 2005). The JSI is a 40–item self–report instrument that includes four scales measuring victim, observer, beneficiary and perpetrator sensitivities. The items depict hypothetical transgression in which participants are asked to rate unfair situations in which they are, in turn, victims, passive observers, third party beneficiaries and transgressors. Some examples...
Perceived Fairness
A visual analogue scale (VAS) embedded in the UG task was presented after each decision that participants made as responders. Participants were asked to rate each split in terms of overall fairness (“How fair was the proposed split?”) on a 101—point scale (0 = “not at all”; 100 = “extremely”).
- Andreea Bică, Romeo Z. Crețu, Ioana R. Podina
- 2021
Generalized estimating equations were used to examine the association between both annual household income and neighborhood median income and each of four anxiety subscale scores from the multidimensional anxiety scale for children (MASC): physical symptoms, harm avoidance, social anxiety, and separation/panic anxiety.
Jun 13, 2017 · We first clarify which individual characteristics in particular result in status anxiety: labor market exclusion and low-income position.
Feb 18, 2016 · This review highlights the main lines of existing adult and youth research on scales that form part of diagnostic instruments that assess SAD, scales that measure social anxiety symptoms, and scales that measure theory-based psychological maintaining factors associated with SAD.
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Study 1 was a three-week daily diary study with undergraduates, and Study 2 was a two-week ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study with a clinical sample of adults diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and a psychologically healthy comparison group.
