Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one’s own judgment of one’s status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of these hierarchy– well-being relationships in the U.S. and Japan, cultural contexts with different normative ideas about how social status is understood...

We examined the use of “I” in Tweets posted by 50 famous people during a one-month window. The linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) was implemented to determine the percentage of 140-character Tweets that used the personal pronoun “I”. Our findings showed patterns typically seen in natural speech. Specifically, women used the self-referent focus “I” significantly more often than men did, an...

This study investigated the associations between attained status and adolescents’ social behaviors, as well moderating effects of goals, culture, gender. Participants were 1,267 adolescents (Mage = 13.36; 49% girls overall) from China (n 667) United Sates 600). Social relational overt aggression, prosocial behaviors self-reported, whereas popularity preference peer reported. The findings sugges...

Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one's own judgment of one's status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of these hierarchy-well-being relationships in the U.S. and Japan, cultural contexts with different normative ideas about how social status is understood ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relations between subjective social status, and objective socioeconomic status (as measured by income and education) in relation to male/female middle aged mortality rates across 150 sub-regions in Hungary. DESIGN Cross sectional, ecological analyses. SETTING 150 sub-regions of Hungary. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 12,643 people were interviewed in the Hungaro-study ...

background: divorce, especially in women, could be assessed from socio-cultural perspective as well as psychological viewpoint. this assessment requires cultural adopted as well as valid and reliable questionnaire. this study aimed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a questionnaire in order to address social consequences in iranian divorced women. methods: this was an explorat...

the study aims at investigating the relationship between social capital and national identity. based on giddens’ theory on identity and woolcock and narayan’s theory of social capital, the researchers, through a survey study, have investigated the relationship between social capital and national identity of 360 students of shiraz university. independent variables include demographic variables, ...

Social stratification has important implications for health and well-being, with individuals lower in standing in a hierarchy experiencing worse outcomes than those higher up the social ladder. Separate lines of past research suggest that alterations in inflammatory processes and neural responses to threat may link lower social status with poorer outcomes. This study was designed to bridge thes...

Ample evidence attests that social intention, elicited through gestures explicitly signaling a request of communicative intention, affects the patterning of hand movement kinematics. The current study goes beyond the effect of social intention and addresses whether the same action of reaching to grasp an object for placing it in an end target position within or without a monitoring attendee's p...