Socioeconomic position over the life-course and subjective social status in relation to nutritional status and mental health among Guatemalan adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We study how life course objective socioeconomic position (SEP) predicts subjective social status (SSS) and the extent to which SSS mediates the association of objective SEP with nutritional status and mental health outcomes.

Methods

We use data from participants of the INCAP Longitudinal Study 1969-2018 (n = 1258) from Guatemala. We use the MacArthur ladder for two measures of SSS - perceived community respect and perceived economic status. We estimate the association of SSS with health outcomes after adjusting for early life characteristics and life course objective SEP (wealth, schooling, employment) using linear regression. We use path analysis to study the extent of mediation by SSS on the health outcomes of body mass index (BMI; kg/m²), psychologic

SUBMITTER: Varghese JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8327130 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature