Rea, Jessica;
(2023)
The differential impact of socioeconomic status indicators on values and self-mastery
(El impacto diferencial de los indicadores del nivel socioeconómico en los valores y el autodominio).
International Journal of Social Psychology
pp. 1-32.
10.1080/02134748.2023.2236885.
(In press).
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Abstract
Socioeconomic status and social class are measured with a wide and complex range of indicators with little attention paid to the impact these choices may have on empirical findings. This research tests whether different socioeconomic indicators consistently predict motivational differences in the same sample. Two studies were conducted in the United Kingdom. The first study (N = 430) examined the relationship between income, employment, education and personal values. The study found inconsistent relationships between different socioeconomic indicators and value preferences. A similar pattern of inconsistent relationships between socioeconomic status indicators and measures of self-mastery, and personal values, was found in the second study (N = 959). The only universal finding across all socioeconomic indicators in both studies was the null relationship with self-transcendence value preferences. These results indicate that we need to be more cautious in framing socioeconomic status as a construct and more rigorous in assessing differences observed across social classes.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The differential impact of socioeconomic status indicators on values and self-mastery (El impacto diferencial de los indicadores del nivel socioeconómico en los valores y el autodominio) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02134748.2023.2236885 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2023.2236885 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2023. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | socioeconomic status, social class, motivation, values, self-mastery |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute > IOE - Thomas Coram Research Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175596 |
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