Juan Diego García-Castro
Biographic Data
| ID | 340315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan Diego García-Castro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan Diego |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Castro |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-CASTRO J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9662-6547 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Blindfolded: Acceptance of Economic Inequality is Associated With Trust in Government and Perceived Economic Performance / Con la venda en los ojos: la aceptación de la desigualdad económica se asocia…
The degree to which people accept inequality influences their socio-political attitudes. However, we do not yet know the extent to which such acceptance is associated with trust in the incumbent government and, going a step further, how both relate to the perceived economic performance of the country in question. In our research, we analyse this relationship in Costa Rica, an economically unequal country with a moderate level of support for the g…
Social hierarchies and meritocracy: Objective status and the moderating role of subjective social status on perceived meritocracy
This study investigates how subjective and objective dimensions of social status shape perceptions of meritocracy within Chile’s highly unequal society. Drawing on a representative sample of the urban population from the 2018 wave of the Longitudinal Social Study of Chile (ELSOC; N = 3,488), this research examines whether subjective social status is associated with perceptions that effort and talent are rewarded, even after controlling for relate…
Perceiving Economic Inequality in Daily Life Increases Status Anxiety: Evidence From Latin America / Percibir desigualdad económica en la vida diaria incrementa la ansiedad por el estatus: evidencia d…
Economic inequality is a pronounced and persistent phenomenon in Latin America, with consequences that transcend the structural and affect psychological well-being. However, the evidence linking inequality and status anxiety is inconsistent, partly due to the distinction between objective and subjective indicators of inequality. Furthermore, most studies originate from the Global North, limiting a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon. Th…
Economic Inequality and Unfairness Evaluations of Income Distribution Negatively Predict Political and Social Trust: Evidence From Latin America Over 23 Years
Research has produced mixed results on the relationship between economic inequality and social and political trust. These studies overrepresent developed countries, cross-sectional designs, and overlook the role of subjective evaluations of inequality. We use 13 waves from 18 Latin American countries over 23 years (above 250,000 participants) to examine the association between structural inequality and fairness evaluations with political and soci…
Inequality and Status Anxiety: Bad Allies of Health and Well-Being, but not for Everyone. The Role of Ideologies, Socioeconomic Status, and Economic Threat
Economic inequality has been proposed to be linked to lower subjective health and well-being through enhanced status anxiety, but evidence is mixed. We propose that the effects of economic inequality on status anxiety, health and well-being depend on how people perceive it and how threatening it is to them. This paper analyses the effects of perceived economic inequality—in general and in everyday life—on status anxiety, health and well-being, an…
High relational mobility is associated with perceiving more economic inequality in everyday life
In this paper, we argue that one of the variables that may influence perceived inequality in everyday life is cultural differences in relational mobility. We examined this research question across two cross‐cultural studies in Japan (Study 1, N = 196; Study 2, N = 214) and Spain (Study 1, N = 199; Study 2, 199), two countries that differ in their relational mobility levels. In Study 1, we contrasted two competing hypotheses: On the one hand, it c…
Trust in unions drives egalitarianism: Longitudinal evidence
Despite the fundamental role of unions in reducing economic inequality, social psychology still needs to incorporate the systematic study of unions concerning the contemporary theories of intergroup inequality. In this study, we do so by testing the reciprocal relationship between trust in unions and social‐dominance orientation egalitarianism (SDO‐E) over time. Using data from the Longitudinal Social Survey of Chile, which is a panel study with …
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America
Perceived Economic Inequality Is Negatively Associated with Subjective Well-being through Status Anxiety and Social Trust
La herencia herética: Historia y temporalidades múltiples en Althusser y Rancière
En el presente artículo proponemos examinar el vínculo de Rancière con Althusser a partir del problema de la historia y del tiempo histórico. La hipótesis central que moviliza el escrito es que en este terreno difícilmente pueda hablarse de una lisa y llana ruptura, sino más bien de ciertas herencias, huellas y trazos comunes, como también de rechazos, herejías y reinscripciones. En nuestra argumentación buscaremos mostrar que el legado althusser…
Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality
Modern societies are characterized by economic inequality. Redistributive policies are one of the means to reduce it. We argue that perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of it are central factors to enhance positive attitudes toward redistribution. To test it, we conducted a four-wave longitudinal panel study in Chile with a sample of 1221 college students (at T1 – baseline, 960 at T2, 926 at T3, and 787 at T4; Mage = 18.…
Evaluación de (in)justicia distributiva en jóvenes de Centroamérica
Centroamérica es una región caracterizada por la extrema desigualdad. En este estudio pionero en su campo, analizamos cómo 1501 jóvenes centroamericanos/as entre los 14 y 24 años (M=18,7,DE=3,1, 53,3% mujeres) evalúan la injusticia de la desigualdad en su país y qué predictores pueden explicar estas valoraciones. Con un diseño exploratorio y descriptivo, encontramos que donde menos se percibe la desigualdad como injusta es en Nicaragua y Costa Ri…
The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on its perception
The perception of economic inequality in everyday life: My friends with the most and least money
The study of perceived economic differences in everyday life is relevant to deepening knowledge of how inequality shapes psychological processes. In the current research, Spanish undergraduates ( N = 547) were asked what their friends with the most and least money could do with their resources. Using a qualitative and quantitative approach, we performed a content analysis of the 1,085 open‐ended responses given, ran latent class analyses with the…
Perception of economic inequality: Concepts, associated factors and prospects of a burgeoning research agenda ( Percepción de desigualdad económica: conceptos, factores asociados y proyecciones de una…
Perceptions of economic inequality have become a topic of growing interest in research from different social science disciplines. This article presents an up-to-date literature review of studies on this topic, stressing aspects related to its conceptualization and measurement, as well as psychosocial, socioeconomic and contextual factors associated with the perception of inequality. This review ends by pointing out some consequences of perception…
How do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales
The attributional process, defined as the process of inferring the causes of the events that surround individuals in their daily lives, can potentially shape the understanding of poverty and wealth. For instance, it might influence how people behave, what they expect from poor and wealthy groups in their society, and how they judge them. However, the existing measures that capture these attributional phenomena have several limitations. Some attri…
Perceived Economic Inequality Measures and Their Association With Objective Inequality and Redistributive Preferences
Perceptions of economic inequality (PEI) play a central role in people's responses to inequality. We aim to examine the consistency between different PEI measures (income gaps, diagrammatic figures, experienced downward and upward disparities), their relationship with objective inequality, and their association with redistributive preferences. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2019 ( N = 34,387, 22 countries), we performed…
Percepción de desigualdad económica en la vida cotidiana e ideología política: Un estudio con jóvenes de España
In this study, we analyze the perception of economic inequality in everyday life in Spain based on political ideology. Using content analysis techniques, we processed 705 open-ended responses from 290 people and used network analysis to examine the relationships between the categories identified. We found that economic inequality is perceived primarily as social comparison and relative deprivation between individuals/groups. However, it is percei…
Colonialidad, reparto de lo sensible y descolonización: Una crítica rancieriana a la “opción decolonial” de Walter Mignolo
En el presente trabajo proponemos abordar y problematizar algunos aspectos de la “opción decolonial” propuesta por Walter Mignolo. Específicamente nos interesa indagar cómo la articulación de dos categorías centrales de su pensamiento, “diferencia colonial” y “geopolítica del conocimiento”, da lugar a una política decolonial con una fuerte impronta identitaria que busca des-prenderse de todo legado moderno. Para profundizar esta problematización,…
Perceiving economic inequality in everyday life decreases tolerance to inequality
I know people who can and who cannot: A measure of the perception of economic inequality in everyday life
Highlights• A scale of Perceived Economic Inequality in Everyday Life (PEIEL) is presented.• The scale is unidimensional and shows valid and reliable psychometric properties.• PEIEL predicted tolerance of economic inequality over and above wage gap estimates.• PEIEL had an impact on the tolerance towards inequality of right-wing individuals
Tiempo libre en adolescentes escolarizados de dos clases sociales de Costa Rica
This study inquires the relationship between leisure time, social class and gender among Costa Rican high school adolescents. A survey was administered to 219 Costa Rican adolescents, between 16 and 17 years old, recruited from a public and a private educational institution. Results show relevant differences across class and gender in the organization of leisure time. Such differences are associated with the capitalistic structuration of gender a…
Perceiving economic inequality in everyday life decreases tolerance to inequality
I know people who can and who cannot: A measure of the perception of economic inequality in everyday life
Highlights• A scale of Perceived Economic Inequality in Everyday Life (PEIEL) is presented.• The scale is unidimensional and shows valid and reliable psychometric properties.• PEIEL predicted tolerance of economic inequality over and above wage gap estimates.• PEIEL had an impact on the tolerance towards inequality of right-wing individuals
Perceived Economic Inequality Is Negatively Associated with Subjective Well-being through Status Anxiety and Social Trust
How do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales
The attributional process, defined as the process of inferring the causes of the events that surround individuals in their daily lives, can potentially shape the understanding of poverty and wealth. For instance, it might influence how people behave, what they expect from poor and wealthy groups in their society, and how they judge them. However, the existing measures that capture these attributional phenomena have several limitations. Some attri…
Perceived Economic Inequality Measures and Their Association With Objective Inequality and Redistributive Preferences
Perceptions of economic inequality (PEI) play a central role in people's responses to inequality. We aim to examine the consistency between different PEI measures (income gaps, diagrammatic figures, experienced downward and upward disparities), their relationship with objective inequality, and their association with redistributive preferences. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2019 ( N = 34,387, 22 countries), we performed…
Percepción de desigualdad económica en la vida cotidiana e ideología política: Un estudio con jóvenes de España
In this study, we analyze the perception of economic inequality in everyday life in Spain based on political ideology. Using content analysis techniques, we processed 705 open-ended responses from 290 people and used network analysis to examine the relationships between the categories identified. We found that economic inequality is perceived primarily as social comparison and relative deprivation between individuals/groups. However, it is percei…
Inequality and Status Anxiety: Bad Allies of Health and Well-Being, but not for Everyone. The Role of Ideologies, Socioeconomic Status, and Economic Threat
Economic inequality has been proposed to be linked to lower subjective health and well-being through enhanced status anxiety, but evidence is mixed. We propose that the effects of economic inequality on status anxiety, health and well-being depend on how people perceive it and how threatening it is to them. This paper analyses the effects of perceived economic inequality—in general and in everyday life—on status anxiety, health and well-being, an…
Evaluación de (in)justicia distributiva en jóvenes de Centroamérica
Centroamérica es una región caracterizada por la extrema desigualdad. En este estudio pionero en su campo, analizamos cómo 1501 jóvenes centroamericanos/as entre los 14 y 24 años (M=18,7,DE=3,1, 53,3% mujeres) evalúan la injusticia de la desigualdad en su país y qué predictores pueden explicar estas valoraciones. Con un diseño exploratorio y descriptivo, encontramos que donde menos se percibe la desigualdad como injusta es en Nicaragua y Costa Ri…
Tiempo libre en adolescentes escolarizados de dos clases sociales de Costa Rica
This study inquires the relationship between leisure time, social class and gender among Costa Rican high school adolescents. A survey was administered to 219 Costa Rican adolescents, between 16 and 17 years old, recruited from a public and a private educational institution. Results show relevant differences across class and gender in the organization of leisure time. Such differences are associated with the capitalistic structuration of gender a…
I know people who can and who cannot: A measure of the perception of economic inequality in everyday life
Highlights• A scale of Perceived Economic Inequality in Everyday Life (PEIEL) is presented.• The scale is unidimensional and shows valid and reliable psychometric properties.• PEIEL predicted tolerance of economic inequality over and above wage gap estimates.• PEIEL had an impact on the tolerance towards inequality of right-wing individuals
Perceiving economic inequality in everyday life decreases tolerance to inequality
Colonialidad, reparto de lo sensible y descolonización: Una crítica rancieriana a la “opción decolonial” de Walter Mignolo
En el presente trabajo proponemos abordar y problematizar algunos aspectos de la “opción decolonial” propuesta por Walter Mignolo. Específicamente nos interesa indagar cómo la articulación de dos categorías centrales de su pensamiento, “diferencia colonial” y “geopolítica del conocimiento”, da lugar a una política decolonial con una fuerte impronta identitaria que busca des-prenderse de todo legado moderno. Para profundizar esta problematización,…
The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on its perception
The perception of economic inequality in everyday life: My friends with the most and least money
The study of perceived economic differences in everyday life is relevant to deepening knowledge of how inequality shapes psychological processes. In the current research, Spanish undergraduates ( N = 547) were asked what their friends with the most and least money could do with their resources. Using a qualitative and quantitative approach, we performed a content analysis of the 1,085 open‐ended responses given, ran latent class analyses with the…
Perception of economic inequality: Concepts, associated factors and prospects of a burgeoning research agenda ( Percepción de desigualdad económica: conceptos, factores asociados y proyecciones de una…
Perceptions of economic inequality have become a topic of growing interest in research from different social science disciplines. This article presents an up-to-date literature review of studies on this topic, stressing aspects related to its conceptualization and measurement, as well as psychosocial, socioeconomic and contextual factors associated with the perception of inequality. This review ends by pointing out some consequences of perception…
How do people understand the causes of poverty and wealth? A revised structural dimensionality of the attributions about poverty and wealth scales
The attributional process, defined as the process of inferring the causes of the events that surround individuals in their daily lives, can potentially shape the understanding of poverty and wealth. For instance, it might influence how people behave, what they expect from poor and wealthy groups in their society, and how they judge them. However, the existing measures that capture these attributional phenomena have several limitations. Some attri…
Perceived Economic Inequality Measures and Their Association With Objective Inequality and Redistributive Preferences
Perceptions of economic inequality (PEI) play a central role in people's responses to inequality. We aim to examine the consistency between different PEI measures (income gaps, diagrammatic figures, experienced downward and upward disparities), their relationship with objective inequality, and their association with redistributive preferences. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2019 ( N = 34,387, 22 countries), we performed…
Percepción de desigualdad económica en la vida cotidiana e ideología política: Un estudio con jóvenes de España
In this study, we analyze the perception of economic inequality in everyday life in Spain based on political ideology. Using content analysis techniques, we processed 705 open-ended responses from 290 people and used network analysis to examine the relationships between the categories identified. We found that economic inequality is perceived primarily as social comparison and relative deprivation between individuals/groups. However, it is percei…
La herencia herética: Historia y temporalidades múltiples en Althusser y Rancière
En el presente artículo proponemos examinar el vínculo de Rancière con Althusser a partir del problema de la historia y del tiempo histórico. La hipótesis central que moviliza el escrito es que en este terreno difícilmente pueda hablarse de una lisa y llana ruptura, sino más bien de ciertas herencias, huellas y trazos comunes, como también de rechazos, herejías y reinscripciones. En nuestra argumentación buscaremos mostrar que el legado althusser…
Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality
Modern societies are characterized by economic inequality. Redistributive policies are one of the means to reduce it. We argue that perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of it are central factors to enhance positive attitudes toward redistribution. To test it, we conducted a four-wave longitudinal panel study in Chile with a sample of 1221 college students (at T1 – baseline, 960 at T2, 926 at T3, and 787 at T4; Mage = 18.…
Evaluación de (in)justicia distributiva en jóvenes de Centroamérica
Centroamérica es una región caracterizada por la extrema desigualdad. En este estudio pionero en su campo, analizamos cómo 1501 jóvenes centroamericanos/as entre los 14 y 24 años (M=18,7,DE=3,1, 53,3% mujeres) evalúan la injusticia de la desigualdad en su país y qué predictores pueden explicar estas valoraciones. Con un diseño exploratorio y descriptivo, encontramos que donde menos se percibe la desigualdad como injusta es en Nicaragua y Costa Ri…
High relational mobility is associated with perceiving more economic inequality in everyday life
In this paper, we argue that one of the variables that may influence perceived inequality in everyday life is cultural differences in relational mobility. We examined this research question across two cross‐cultural studies in Japan (Study 1, N = 196; Study 2, N = 214) and Spain (Study 1, N = 199; Study 2, 199), two countries that differ in their relational mobility levels. In Study 1, we contrasted two competing hypotheses: On the one hand, it c…
Trust in unions drives egalitarianism: Longitudinal evidence
Despite the fundamental role of unions in reducing economic inequality, social psychology still needs to incorporate the systematic study of unions concerning the contemporary theories of intergroup inequality. In this study, we do so by testing the reciprocal relationship between trust in unions and social‐dominance orientation egalitarianism (SDO‐E) over time. Using data from the Longitudinal Social Survey of Chile, which is a panel study with …
Subjective inequality and attitudes to labor unions: Evidence from Latin America
Perceived Economic Inequality Is Negatively Associated with Subjective Well-being through Status Anxiety and Social Trust
Economic Inequality and Unfairness Evaluations of Income Distribution Negatively Predict Political and Social Trust: Evidence From Latin America Over 23 Years
Research has produced mixed results on the relationship between economic inequality and social and political trust. These studies overrepresent developed countries, cross-sectional designs, and overlook the role of subjective evaluations of inequality. We use 13 waves from 18 Latin American countries over 23 years (above 250,000 participants) to examine the association between structural inequality and fairness evaluations with political and soci…
Inequality and Status Anxiety: Bad Allies of Health and Well-Being, but not for Everyone. The Role of Ideologies, Socioeconomic Status, and Economic Threat
Economic inequality has been proposed to be linked to lower subjective health and well-being through enhanced status anxiety, but evidence is mixed. We propose that the effects of economic inequality on status anxiety, health and well-being depend on how people perceive it and how threatening it is to them. This paper analyses the effects of perceived economic inequality—in general and in everyday life—on status anxiety, health and well-being, an…
Blindfolded: Acceptance of Economic Inequality is Associated With Trust in Government and Perceived Economic Performance / Con la venda en los ojos: la aceptación de la desigualdad económica se asocia…
The degree to which people accept inequality influences their socio-political attitudes. However, we do not yet know the extent to which such acceptance is associated with trust in the incumbent government and, going a step further, how both relate to the perceived economic performance of the country in question. In our research, we analyse this relationship in Costa Rica, an economically unequal country with a moderate level of support for the g…
Social hierarchies and meritocracy: Objective status and the moderating role of subjective social status on perceived meritocracy
This study investigates how subjective and objective dimensions of social status shape perceptions of meritocracy within Chile’s highly unequal society. Drawing on a representative sample of the urban population from the 2018 wave of the Longitudinal Social Study of Chile (ELSOC; N = 3,488), this research examines whether subjective social status is associated with perceptions that effort and talent are rewarded, even after controlling for relate…
Perceiving Economic Inequality in Daily Life Increases Status Anxiety: Evidence From Latin America / Percibir desigualdad económica en la vida diaria incrementa la ansiedad por el estatus: evidencia d…
Economic inequality is a pronounced and persistent phenomenon in Latin America, with consequences that transcend the structural and affect psychological well-being. However, the evidence linking inequality and status anxiety is inconsistent, partly due to the distinction between objective and subjective indicators of inequality. Furthermore, most studies originate from the Global North, limiting a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon. Th…
Inequality (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Economic inequality (7 works) · Social inequality (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)