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Social Causation Versus Health Selection in the Life Course: Does Their Relative Importance Differ by Dimension of SES?

Hoffmann, Rasmus; Kröger, Hannes; Geyer, Siegfried - In: Social Indicators Research 141 (2019) 3, pp. 1341-1367

A person's socioeconomic status (SES) can affect health (social causation) and health can affect SES (health selection). The findings for each of these pathways may depend on how SES is measured. We study (1) whether social causation or health selection is more important for overall health...

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Disparities in Academic Achievement: Assessing the Role of Habitus and Practice

Edgerton, Jason; Roberts, Lance; Peter, Tracey - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 303-322

Bourdieu’s theory of cultural and social reproduction—with its core concepts cultural capital, habitus, practice and field—is a leading account of the intergenerational persistence of educational inequality. Although numerous studies examine the relationship between class, cultural capital...

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Measuring socioeconomic status in health research in developing countries: Should we be focusing on households, communities or both?

Fotso, Jean-Christophe; Kuate-Defo, Barthelemy - In: Social Indicators Research 72 (2005) 2, pp. 189-237

Research on the effects of socioeconomic well-being on health is important for policy makers in developing countries, where limited resources make it crucial to use existing health care resources to the best advantage. This paper develops and tests a set of measures of socioeconomic status...

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Is Subjective Status Influenced by Psychosocial Factors?

Lundberg, Johanna; Kristenson, Margareta - In: Social Indicators Research 89 (2008) 3, pp. 375-390

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Poverty, Psychological Resources And Subjective Well-Being

Lever, Joaquina; Piñol, Nuria; Uralde, Jorge - In: Social Indicators Research 73 (2005) 3, pp. 375-408

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Poverty Attitudes of Singaporeans: A Question of Class, Politics, and Action?

Ng, Irene - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 2, pp. 371-385

This paper discusses findings from a survey of 440 Singaporeans on their views of the definitions and causes of poverty. Overall, sentiments towards poor people were sympathetic, which might be partially due to respondents’ narrow definition of poverty. Controlled for demographic...

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Testing Subjective Well-Being from the Perspective of Social Quality: Quantile Regression Evidence from Shanghai, China

Yuan, Hao; Golpelwar, Mayank - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 257-276

quantiles of SWB. The results show that house tenure, financial balance, social participation, social trust, loneliness, and … social alienation, are strong predictors for SWB across SWB’s quantiles. Institutional trust improves SWB among those with …

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Sociality in Diverse Societies: A Regional Analysis Across European Countries

Koster, Ferry - In: Social Indicators Research 111 (2013) 2, pp. 579-601

different kinds of sociality (interpersonal trust, institutional trust, and support for government redistribution) shows that …

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A Validity and Reliability Study of the Multidimensional Trust in Health-Care Systems Scale in a Turkish Patient Population

Dinç, Leyla; Korkmaz, Fatoş; Karabulut, Erdem - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 107-120

The importance of trust within health care is widely acknowledged. Measuring patients’ trust in health care systems may … patient trust, less attention has been paid to the multidimensional nature of trust in health care systems. The purpose of … this methodological study was to adapt the Multidimensional Trust in Health-Care Systems Scale into Turkish and to evaluate …

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Social Capital in Association with Socioeconomic Variables in Iran

Nedjat, Saharnaz; Majdzadeh, Reza; Kheiltash, Azita; … - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 3, pp. 1153-1170

obtained over 50 % of the attainable scores in the ‘trust’, ‘cooperation’, ‘social cohesion’, and ‘political action’ dimensions … had higher trust scores than respondents in the 18–25 age group. Men had higher ‘network’ and ‘social cohesion’ scores …

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