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Mar 17, 2023 · We tested the indirect effect of inequality manipulation on status anxiety with expected upward mobility as a mediating variable and expected downward mobility as a suppressing variable (see MacKinnon et al., 2000).
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- 17 March 2023
May 24, 2021 · Status anxiety has been associated with income inequality across a variety of cross-sectional studies ( Layte and Whelan, 2014; Delhey et al., 2017; Melita et al., 2020 ), but up to now, a causal relationship has not yet been demonstrated.
- Davide Melita, Guillermo B. Willis, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637365
- 2021
- Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 637365.
Jan 1, 2022 · Income inequality has been associated with higher levels of status consumption with well-established harmful effects on health, wellbeing and economic stability. Research has suggested that status anxiety may be the mechanism that connects income inequality with status consumption, but the literature is disparate.
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.
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...
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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Oct 26, 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...
