Under capital's thumb: longitudinal associations between relational social class and health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We used a relational social-class measure based on property ownership and managerial authority to analyse the longitudinal relationships between class, self-rated health (SRH) and mental illness. To our knowledge, this is the first study using a relational social-class measure to evaluate these relationships longitudinally.

Methods

Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data from 1984 to 2017, we first assigned respondents aged 25-64 to the not in the labour force (NILF), worker, manager, petit bourgeois (PB) or capitalist classes based on business ownership, managerial authority and employment status. Next, using Cox models, we estimated the confounder-adjusted associations between 2-year-lagged class and incidence of poor/fair SRH and serious mental illness. We al

SUBMITTER: Eisenberg-Guyot J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7173644 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature