Subjective Social Status: Construct Validity and Associations with Psychosocial Vulnerability and Self-Rated Health
Subjective Social Status: Construct Validity and Associations with Psychosocial Vulnerability and Self-Rated Health
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DOI：
10.1007/s12529-011-9206-1
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Berg, Cynthia A.
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作者：
Cundiff, Jenny M.;Smith, TimothyW.;Berg, Cynthia A.
主观社会地位（SSS）预测健康结果独立于传统的社会经济地位（SES）的客观指标。然而，在这方面，本研究提供了一个结构效度检验，并随后检验了社会心理因素是否在社会心理支持与自我--我们检查了SSS的麦克阿瑟量表相对于心理社会风险和弹性措施的收敛和判别效度（即，神经质、抑郁症状、乐观和婚姻质量）以及SES（即，300名中年和老年已婚美国夫妇。我们还测试了一个因素的社会心理脆弱性之间的关系的SSS和自测health.Findings的关系表明明确的收敛和判别效度的麦克阿瑟量表。此外，控制年龄和收入，美国和社会的SSS措施预测男性的心理社会因素，但是，只有社区措施是独立的预测妇女。社会心理脆弱性显着介导的SSS和自测健康的男性和女性之间的通路后，控制年龄和income.These结果提供了强有力的支持的麦克阿瑟量表的结构效度，并提供了额外的证据的作用，社会心理风险和弹性因素的调解人的SSS对健康的影响。
Subjective social status (SSS) predicts health outcomes independently of traditional, objective indicators of socioeconomic status (SES). However, the potential confounding and mediating effects of negative affect and similar psychosocial risk and resilience factors have not been adequately addressed through formal studies of convergent and discriminant validity of SSS measures.The current study provides such a test of construct validity and subsequently examines whether psychosocial factors mediate the relationship between SSS and self-rated health.We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of the MacArthur scales of SSS relative to measures of psychosocial risk and resilience (i.e., neuroticism, depressive symptoms, optimism, and marital quality) as well as SES (i.e., income) in 300 middle-aged and older married US couples. We also tested a factor of psychosocial vulnerability as a mediator of the relationship between SSS and self-rated health.Findings indicated clear convergent and discriminant validity of the MacArthur scales. Further, controlling age and income, both the US and community measures of SSS predicted psychosocial factors for men, however, only the community measure was independently predictive for women. Psychosocial vulnerability significantly mediated the pathway between SSS and self-rated health for men and women after controlling age and income.These results provide strong support for the construct validity of the MacArthur scales and provide additional evidence of the role of psychosocial risk and resilience factors as mediators of the effects of SSS on health.