Predicting self-rated mental and physical health: the contributions of subjective socioeconomic status and personal relative deprivation
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Lower subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) and higher personal relative deprivation (PRD) relate to poorer health. Both constructs concern people's perceived relative social position, but they differ in their emphasis on the reference groups people use to determine their comparative disadvantage (national population vs. similar others) and the importance of resentment that may arise from such adverse comparisons. We investigated the relative utility of SSS and PRD as predictors of self-rated physical and mental health (e.g., self-rated health, stress, health complaints). Across six studies, self-rated physical and mental health were on the whole better predicted by measures of PRD than by SSS while controlling for objective socioeconomic status (SES), with SSS rarely contributing unique variance over and above PRD and SES. Studies 4-6 discount the possibility that the superiority of PRD over SSS in predicting health is due to psychometric differences (e.g., reliability) or response biases between the measures.
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Relative deprivation is positively associated with poor sleep quality in adults.
“A previous study on relative deprivation and mental health also showed that relative deprivation was positively associated with relevant items for poor sleep quality in adults (Callan et al., 2015).”
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In the few studies that explored the relationship between relative deprivation and sleep quality, only three items (sleep latency) in the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale were used to measure sleep quality, with few items and incomplete measurement.
“In the few studies that explored the relationship between the two, only three items (sleep latency) in the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale were used to measure sleep quality, with few items and incomplete measurement (Callan et al., 2015).”
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- Authors
- Callan, M. J., Kim, H., & Matthews, W. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Essex (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Callan, Mitchell J.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2015-09-22
- Volume
- 6
- Pages
- 1415-1415
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4585190
- OpenAlex
- W1841582128
- Cited by
- 152
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 7
- FWCI
- 10.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure (University of Bath) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2013-148)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Employment and Welfare Studies
- Keywords
- subjective socioeconomic status, personal relative deprivation, self-rated health, mental health, physical health, objective socioeconomic status, social comparison, resentment, health complaints, stress, health prediction
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