Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and physical health: do negative emotions play a role?

By Linda C Gallo, Karen A. Matthews. Psychological bulletin, 2003

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Personality development: stability and change. (2005, background): “…IKH 476 CASPI ROBERTS SHINER adult health, compelling health psychologists to turn their attention to examine the role that personality factors may play in mediating the associations between early social experiences and poor health across the life course (Gallo & Mathews 2003, Repetti et al. 2002).”
Health psychology: psychological adjustment to chronic disease. (2007, background): “Poverty and low-SES environments set the stage for two intertwined phenomena— experiencing more stressful life events of greater magnitude and having fewer social and psychological resources to manage them— that, in turn, contribute to poorer mental and physical health (Gallo & Matthews 2003).”
Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence (2006, neutral): “More educated individuals are indeed less likely to report negative emotions, including depressive symptoms, anxiety and hostility, which are associated with worse health later in life (Adler et al 1994, Gallo and Matthews, 2003).”
Subjective social status: reliability and predictive utility for global health (2004, background): “Other factors may also mediate this relationship, such as sleep quality (Moore et al., 2002), stress and adversity (Taylor and Seeman, 1999), pessimism and feelings of control (Cohen et al., 1999), and negative emotions (Gallo and Matthews, 2003).”
The Social Ladder: A Rank-Based Perspective on Social Class (2013, background): “Other work is suggestive of the possibility that the severity of economic inequality heightens cynical mistrust and hostility—two features of the heightened threat vigilance that characterizes individuals of lower class rank (e.g., Gallo & Matthews, 2003; Kraus et al., 2012).”
Unethical and Unwell: Decrements in Well-Being and Unethical Activity at Work (2010, background): “, 1993) that make workers more susceptible to deleterious health consequences (Gallo and Matthews, 2003; Lepore et al., 1991; Rook, 1990).”
Entrepreneurship responding to adversity: Equilibrating Adverse Events and Disequilibrating Persistent Adversity (2020, background): “…status also typically live in neighborhoods characterized by a high incidence of violence and environmental hazards (Bradley & Whiteside-Mansell, 1997), less supportive communities (Gallo & Matthews, 2003; Matthews & Gallo, 2011), and a relative lack of social order (Sampson et al., 1997).”
Alcohol consumption and masculine identity among young men (2007, background): “This is what one might expect among young men, because SES differences are difficult to measure and examine among young people (Gallo & Matthews, 2003).”
The Role of Psychosocial Processes in Explaining the Gradient Between Socioeconomic Status and Health (2003, background): “Negative cognitions and affective states increase as SES decreases (see Gallo & Matthews, 2003).”
Social Capital and Health (2008, positive): “Similarly, distrust is one (but only one) element of ‘hostility’, which is weakly associated with heart disease (Gallo & Matthews, 2003; Hemingway & Marmot, 1999).”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “Lower-class individuals reside in resource-deprived contexts (e.g., with poorly funded schools, higher crime rates, increased pollution) that are unstable and threatening (Gallo & Matthews, 2003), conditions that upper-class individuals are relatively insulated from.”
Negative emotions of an entrepreneurial career: Self-employment and regulatory coping behaviors (2011, background): “Those who live in families with overall higher income enjoy more financial security which may diminish their negative emotions (Gallo and Matthews, 2003).”
The experience of emotion. (2007, background): “Such a transdisorder affective syndrome, if it exists, might also predispose people to healthrelated problems as well (Gallo & Matthews 2003, Pressman & Cohen 2005).”