@misc{10481/84974,
year = {2023},
month = {3},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/84974},
abstract = {Status anxiety theory posits that higher income inequality
leads people to attribute more importance to their socioeconomic
status and to worry about the position they occupy on
the social ladder. We investigated through two experimental
studies (N = 1117) the causal effect of economic inequality on
status anxiety and whether expected upward and downward
mobility mediates this effect. In Study 1, perceived economic
inequality indirectly increased status anxiety through lesser
expected upward mobility. In Study 2, perceived economic
inequality decreased both expected upward and downward
mobility, with opposite indirect effects on status anxiety.
This suggests that the relationship between inequality and
status anxiety is not straightforward, and could implicate the
presence of multiple processes working at the same time—
whereas lower expected downward mobility could suppress
the effect of inequality, lower expected upward mobility
could exacerbate it.},
organization = {SRA (State Research Agency /10.13039/501100011033) of the
Spanish Government},
organization = {European Social Fund (PSI2016-78839-P},
organization = {PID2019-105643GB-I00)
and by SRA Grant BES-2017-082707},
publisher = {Wiley},
keywords = {Economic inequality},
keywords = {Social mobility},
keywords = {Socioeconomic status},
keywords = {Status anxiety},
title = {Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility},
doi = {10.1111/bjso.12641},
author = {Melita, Davide and Rodríguez Bailón, Rosa María and Willis, Guillermo B.},
}