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- The higher the inequality, the less satisfied people are with their lives. Much of this research has relied on the status-anxiety hypothesis, which posits that economic inequality leads people to pay more attention to social status.
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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 limitations of the status anxiety approach.
- Lukasz Walasek, Gordon D. A. Brown
- 2019
Jan 1, 2022 · Income inequality additionally lowers people's perceptions of their own social status with negative consequences for wellbeing (Schneider, 2019), meaning that dissatisfaction occurs across the income spectrum in more unequal settings as people constantly strive to improve their social standing.
Sep 6, 2023 · Our findings demonstrate that low subjective socioeconomic status at the individual level, and income inequality at the national level, are associated with higher levels of moral identity,...
Oct 15, 2021 · The higher the inequality, the less satisfied people are with their lives. Much of this research has relied on the status-anxiety hypothesis, which posits that economic inequality leads people to pay more attention to social status.
- Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, B. Keith Payne
- 13
- 2021
- 15 October 2021
May 29, 2020 · Other research suggests that income inequality is associated with increased materialism, social comparison, and status anxiety as well as reduced trust (for reviews, see, for example, Buttrick et al., 2017; Walasek & Brown, 2019; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2018).
- Edika G Quispe-Torreblanca, Gordon D A Brown, Christopher J Boyce, Alex M Wood, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
- 10.1177/0146167220923853
- 2021
- 2021/04
Feb 5, 2021 · The estimated positive cross-level inequality interaction effects suggest support for Hypothesis 1a, with an increase in one-directional social comparison decreasing experienced happiness (or increasing experienced unhappiness) more in a state with higher overall inequality.
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. We...
