Publication Date

11-21-2017

Document Type

Book Chapter

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Socioeconomic disadvantage, Adverse impacts, Psychological health

Abstract

Socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) has adverse impacts on physical (Adler and Rehkopf 2008; Blair and Raver 2012; Braverman and Egerter 2008; Cohen et al. 2010; Poulton et al. 2002) and psychological (Adler and Rehkopf 2008; Bradley and Corwyn 2002; Grant et al. 2003) health development. SED is similar to low socioeconomic status (SES) which is based on occupation, income, and education or a composite of more than one of these indicators (McLoyd 1998). However, we conceptualize SED more broadly than socioeconomic status to also include subjective perception of social position and contextual indicators of disadvantage, such as neighborhood deprivation. One of the most commonly used SED indicators is poverty, which is calculated using income that falls below an annually adjusted federal poverty line. Some studies suggest independent effects of different SED variables, but each variable tends to be highly correlated with the others; thus, it is often nearly impossible to disentangle independent effects. Therefore, in this chapter, we will review findings on different SED variables but discuss the impact of SED inclusively. In adulthood, SED is assessed based on factors in an individual’s own background such as income, occupation, and education level, whereas in childhood, SED is typically assessed based on these factors for the parents.

Copyright Date

2018

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Rights Holder

Pilyoung Kim, Gary W. Evans, Edith Chen, Gregory Miller, and Teresa Seeman

Provenance

Received from CHORUS

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

35 pgs

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802 KB

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Copyright is held by the authors. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This book chapter was originally published as:

Kim, P., Evans, G. W., Chen, E., Miller, G., & Seeman, T. (2018). How socioeconomic disadvantages get under the skin and into the brain to influence health development across the lifespan. In N. Halfon, C. B. Forrest, R. M. Lerner, & E. M. Faustman (Eds.), Handbook of Life Course Health Development. (pp. 463–497). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47143-3_19

First Page

463

Last Page

497

PubMed ID

31314284

ISBN

978-3-319-47143-3

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