The Association Between Income Inequality and Mental Health: Testing Status Anxiety, Social Capital, and Neo-Materialist Explanations

By Richard Layte. 2012

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Income inequality and health: a causal review. (2015, background): “psychosocial pathways from income inequality to healthy life expectancy, mortality, mental health and homicide rates conclude that psychosocial factors, such as social capital and trust, mediate the relationship, whereas neo-material factors, such as public expenditure on health or social services, ”
Why Inequality Makes Europeans Less Happy: The Role of Distrust, Status Anxiety, and Perceived Conflict (2014, background): “According to a recent study (Layte, 2012), income inequality does increase levels of status anxiety in a cross-European comparison, but here the measurement of status anxiety is too broad and hence unconvincing—besides one subjective measure we are also going to use, it is measured as crime rates…”
Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “Layte (2012) reports an interesting interaction effect of inequality and the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for European countries: the strongest decline in mental well-being is observed for those living in high-GDP countries, while income inequalities reduce well-being in low- and…”
The enemy between us: The psychological and social costs of inequality (2017, background): “(Richard Layte, 2012) Mental health seems to be affected by the impact of inequality on the quality of our social relationships, rather than by whether countries spend more or less on health systems.”
Who Feels Inferior? A Test of the Status Anxiety Hypothesis of Social Inequalities in Health (2013, background): “, 2009), but researchers are still divided as to the interpretation of this finding and the role of psycho-social processes in particular (Layte, 2012; Präg et al., 2014).”
Income Inequality and Subjective Wellbeing: Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions (2016, background): “Geographic region: Studies report a negative relationship between inequality and SWB in Western, mostly European, societies (Alesina et al. 2004; Delhey and Dragolov 2014; Fahey and Smyth 2004; Layte 2012), with a positive link observed in other parts of the world.”