Subjective socio-economic status predicts self-rated health irrespective of objective family socio-economic background.

ABSTRACT: Aim: Subjective appraisals of socio-economic status (SES) are robustly associated with health outcomes, even when controlling for objective SES. Is this because objective SES is not accounted for in a sufficiently exhaustive way? Methods: I pool eight waves of nationally representative survey data from Germany (German General Social Survey, 2004-18, N=13,557) to assess the association between two separate subjective appraisals of SES (a 10-point scale and subjectively chosen social class membership) and poor self-rated health using logit and linear probability models. I account for an exhaustive range of objective SES variables, including respondents' household incomes and social status, as well as occupational status, social class and education of respondents and of t

SUBMITTER: Prag P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7605046 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature