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Predicting self-rated mental and physical health: the contributions of subjective socioeconomic status and personal relative deprivation

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Callan, Mitchell J., Kim, Hyunji, Matthews, William J.·2015·Frontiers in Psychology

DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01415PMC PMC4585190

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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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Authors: Callan, M. J., Kim, H., & Matthews, W. J.
Affiliations: University of Essex (GB)
University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author: Callan, Mitchell J.
ORCID: Callan, Mitchell J.
Kim, Hyunji
Venue: Frontiers in Psychology
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2015-09-22
Volume: 6
Pages: 1415-1415
ISSN: 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01415
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
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Funders: Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2013-148)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › 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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