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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.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjso.12641Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly ...
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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 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.
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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. The main goal of the present research is to provide experimental evidence about the causal effect of ...
- Davide Melita, Guillermo B. Willis, Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637365
- 2021
- Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 637365.
Here, the 'status anxiety' hypothesis merges with the 'social capital' hypothesis. The third hypothesis has been termed the 'neo-materialist' explanation and explains the association between income inequality and health via systematic under investment in social infrastructure and services in more unequal societies.
Nov 1, 2019 · We describe, critique, and develop the status anxiety hypothesis of income inequality. 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...
- Lukasz Walasek, Gordon D. A. Brown
- 2019
The goal of this paper is to study status anxiety, expressed in terms of status seeking, and how it relates to income inequality. We make a distinction between income groups to determine whether a quest for social status applies to all individuals equally or only particular income groups.
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.