Why the study?
To investigate the independent and interactive effects of subjective socioeconomic status and objective socioeconomic status on physical health, mental health, and well-being.
Both subjective and objective socioeconomic status are positively associated with physical and mental health, and interact to affect well-being.
Associations should not change practice; hypothesis-generating for SES interactions on health.
We investigated the independent and interactive effects of subjective socioeconomic status and objective socioeconomic status on physical health, mental health, and well-being. We collected questionnaires from 276 adults in China. Results showed that subjective socioeconomic status and objective socioeconomic status were positively related to mental health, physical health, and well-being. In addition, there was an interactive effect of subjective socioeconomic status and objective socioeconomic status on well-being. These findings provide a deeper understanding of the mechanisms by which socioeconomic status affects health and well-being and suggest that we should begin to improve peopleâ–™s well-being by looking at individual socioeconomic status.
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Liu et al. (2023) studied this question.
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