Four Factor Index of Social Status [1975]

By A. B. Hollingshead. 1975

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Sex differences in brain maturation during childhood and adolescence. (2001, methodology): “Socioeconomic status (SES) for each subject was completed using the Hollingshead Four Factor Index (Hollingshead, 1975).”
Violence Exposure, IQ, Academic Performance, and Children's Perception of Safety: Evidence of Protective Effects (2006, methodology): “Socioeconomic status was estimated using Hollingshead’s four-factor index (Hollingshead, 1975).”
Asian and Euro-American parents’ ethnotheories of play and learning: Effects on preschool children’s home routines and school behaviour (2004, background): “Hollingshead scores (Hollingshead, 1975) for the two groups were essentially equivalent (Euro-American ¼ 56 vs. Asian ¼ 55).”
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Proactive Personality on Career Decision Self‐Efficacy (2014, methodology): “, Jin et al., 2009; Koumoundourou et al., 2012; Rogers et al., 2008) have extended SCCT hypotheses by showing that person input variables could affect the career development process not only directly but also indirectly via self-efficacy beliefs. Therefore, we encourage future researchers to extend ”
Mothers, Fathers, Gender Role, and Time Parents Spend with Their Children (2003, unknown): “We used Hollingshead’s descriptive classifications for occupation (Hollingshead, 1975).”
ATTACHMENT, CULTURE, AND THE CAREGIVING SYSTEM: THE CULTURAL PATTERNING OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES AMONG ANGLO AND PUERTO RICAN MOTHER-INFANT PAIRS (2003, unknown): “Socio-economic status was defined using the Hollingshead (1975) four-factor scale, which weights maternal and paternal education and occupational prestige into scores ranging from 8 (e.g., unskilled laborer, elementary school education only) to 66 (e.g., major professional with graduate training).”
Parenting Style as a Moderator of Associations Between Maternal Disciplinary Strategies and Child Well-Being (2008, methodology): “Parental educational and occupational information were used to calculate social class using the Hollingshead Four Factor Index of Social Status (Hollingshead, 1975).”
Contributors to Self-Perceived Competence, Satisfaction, Investment, and Role Balance in Maternal Parenting: A Multivariate Ecological Analysis (2003, methodology): “Families varied in social class as measured on the Hollingshead (1975) Four-Factor Index of Social Status, with a median index of 53 (in a possible range of 8 to 66); nearly one–fourth of the families had an index less than 40, and indexes ranged incrementally without gaps from a low of 14.”
Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and physical health: do negative emotions play a role? (2003, background): “In addition, Carmelli, Rosenman, and Swan (1988) found an inverse association between scores on the Hollingshead (1975) measure of SES and on the Ho, and Lynch, Kaplan, and Salonen (1997) showed that recalled childhood SES related to adult Ho scores.”
Individual differences in children's private speech: the role of imaginary companions. (2013, methodology): “SES was assessed using the Hollingshead index (Hollingshead, 1975); scores ranged from 14 to 66 (M = 35.73, SD = 14.04), with 59 children being classed as low SES (parents educated only to minimum school-leaving age and unemployed or in menial/manual employment).”