Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction

By R. Wilkinson, K. Pickett. 2009

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments (2018, background): “…might better proxy for the reference groups that drive contextual effects of income inequality, but the empirical literature suggests that income inequality is more weakly associated with many social outcomes at the sub-state level than at larger levels of aggregation (Wilkinson and Pickett 2009).”
Who Feels Inferior? A Test of the Status Anxiety Hypothesis of Social Inequalities in Health (2013, background): “…of theoretically informed measures of status.ii Reflecting recently on the relationship between material inequality and status differentiation, Wilkinson and Pickett (2009b) concluded that health and social problems whose frequency is affected by social status are made worse by increased…”
Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions (2016, background): “The argument is closely related to the status anxiety hypothesis in the discussion of income inequality and health (Wilkinson and Pickett 2009).”
Income Inequality and Happiness (2011, background): “Although there is a large body of research on income inequality in other social and behavioral sciences (see Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009, for a review), relatively few researchers have investigated the role of income inequality in psychological science.”
Competition, Anxiety, and Depression in the College Classroom: Variations by Student Identity and Field of Study (2016, background): “…0 (other categories of competitiveness) Stress induced by perceived competition may be associated with higher risk of anxiety and/or depression (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009) Discrimination In the past year, how many times have you been treated unfairly because of your race, ethnicity, or…”
Income inequality and health: a causal review. (2015, methodology): “…unadjusted studies of income inequality in relation to health and social problems in rich countries, the strength of the statistically significant associations vary (Pickett and Wilkinson, 2007a; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2010b; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2007; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009).”
How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations (2011, background): “Such inequality in income, indexed by the Gini coefficient, is rising in several countries, including the U.S. and China (Pappas, Queen, Hadden, & Fisher, 1993; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009).”
Feeling Like an Imposter: The Effect of Perceived Classroom Competition on the Daily Psychological Experiences of First-Generation College Students (2019, background): “Competitive academic environments are associated with higher levels of anxiety and stress and often lead students to doubt their competence (Abouserie, 1994; Sommet, Pulfrey, & Butera, 2013; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009).”
An integrated framework for sustainable development goals (2014, background): “Updates can also draw on new knowledge and include new elements such as the need for universal access to clean energy (Birol 2012), the social benefits of reducing relative inequality within countries (Wilkinson and Pickett 2009), and access to information technology.”
The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “The second pathway through which income inequality might be associated with numerous outcomes involves increased status competition (see Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009b for a review).”
Does income inequality cause health and social problems (2011, methodology): “Wilkinson and Pickett (2009a) argued that income inequality causes health and social problems due to ‘status anxiety’.”
The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration (2015, background): “…of these and other developments to bringing many people in the non-OECD world out of absolute poverty, inequalities in income and wealth both within and between countries continue to be a significant problem, with consequences for individual and societal wellbeing (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009).”