Two studies investigated comparison choices among ethnic minorities and majorities. The perceived status of the self vis-à-vis these targets was also assessed. Antecedents and consequences of comparisons and relative deprivation were examined. Predictions were derived from Social Comparison, Stigma, Social Identity, and Relative Deprivation research. Two surveys were conducted: in London with m...

The battles with sleep are well known to neurosurgeons especially during the training years. The feeling of falling and quickly jerking awake, bumping your head to the assistant scope of the microscope may sometimes be inevitable especially while assisting a case if you are awake for 24 hours. Sleep deprivation, inadequate quality of sleep, and disruptions to the sleep-wake cycle have consequen...

Food deprivation is a naturally occurring stressor that is thought to influence the ultimate life-history strategy of individuals. Little is known about how food deprivation interacts with other stressors to influence migration success. European populations of brown trout (Salmo trutta) exhibit partial migration, whereby a portion of the population smoltifies and migrates to the ocean, and the ...

BACKGROUND Although the association between poor health and deprivation is well-founded, a 'Scottish effect' has been observed, whereby the level of health appears even poorer than Scotland's higher level of deprivation should warrant. We consider whether 'Scottish effects' also occur within the regions of England and Wales. METHOD Using ward-level data from the national census, we regress he...

We examined (structurally advantaged) non-Aborigines' willingness for political action against government redress to (structurally disadvantaged) Aborigines in Australia. We found non-Aborigines opposed to government redress to be high in symbolic racism and to perceive their ingroup as deprived relative to Aborigines. However, only perceived relative deprivation was associated with feelings of...

A higher mortality rate in areas with increased socioeconomic deprivation has been found in many studies. Results are diYcult to compare, however, because diVerent indicators of area deprivation have been used. USA-based studies mostly use income to measure area deprivation, 2 whereas UK-based studies often use unemployment and occupational level, but never income. 4 Little is known of the rela...

We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ a simple measure of relative deprivation. We show that the process of deprivationinduced self-selection into groups reaches a unique steady state. We study the social welfare implications of the deprivation-induced process of group formation and show that when individuals are left to pursue their betterment the resulting ...

To evaluate the association between relative deprivation (lacking daily necessities) and subjective health in older Japanese adults, we performed a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES). The data were obtained from functionally independent residents aged ≥65 years from 24 municipalities in Japan (n = 24,742). Thirteen items in three dimension...