Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research

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Rethinking and updating demographic questions: Guidance to improve descriptions of research samples. (2016, methodology): “The MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status (Adler & Stewart, 2007) measures SSS and has been widely used (Diemer et al., 2013).”
The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5–21 year olds (2018, unknown): “In HCP-D, SES is computed using income-to-poverty ratio which is based on family income relative to poverty thresholds, adjusted for family size (Diemer et al., 2013).”
Development and Validation of the Critical Consciousness Scale (2017, background): “…these schools were officially designated as Title I school-wide schools, a designation for schools that serve greater than 40% of students from lowincome families, save the school in the third site (which receives some Title I funds but is not designated as a Title I school; Diemer et al., 2013).”
Examining Social Class and Work Meaning Within the Psychology of Working Framework (2014, methodology): “One possibility is that low work volition may restrict people from finding prosocial work, but regardless of social class, most work can be seen as having prosocial impact or contributing to the greater good in some way (Dik & Duffy, 2012).”