Status incongruence revisited
Associations With Shame and Mental Wellbeing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2266036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg (0000-0002-6347-978X, Linköping University), Johanna Lundberg, Margareta Kristenson (0000-0001-8141-2581, Linköping University), Bengt Starrin (Karlstad University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 478-493 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01148.x |
| PMID | 19144081 |
| OpenAlex | W2083695593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 29 |
Status incongruence has been related to poor health and all-cause mortality, and could be a growing public health problem due to changes in the labour market in later decades. Shaming experiences have been suggested as playing a part in the aetiology. The aim here was to study the risk for shaming experiences, pessimism, anxiety, depressive feelings, and poor mental wellbeing (as measured by the GHQ) with a special focus on shame, in four social status categories: negatively and positively incongruent individuals, and low-status and high-status congruent individuals. Data comprised 14,854 working men and women from a regional sample of randomly selected respondents, 18-79 years of age. Logistic regression was used to study differences in risk for negative emotional outcomes. Results showed that the negative incongruent category persisted as the group most at risk for all negative emotional outcomes (OR 1.5-1.9; p < 0.05-<0.001). When testing the risk for poor mental wellbeing among the status categories with and without shaming experiences, ORs for all groups with shaming experiences were elevated. Among groups without shame, only the negative incongruent category remained at risk (OR 2.7; p < 0.05) after adjustment. Negative incongruent status is associated with adverse emotional outcomes, among them shame, which is a previously unappreciated aspect of status incongruence
Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Mental health · Pessimism · Psychiatry · Shame · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Emotional Labor in Professions · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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