Socioeconomic status, negative affect, and health
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Socioeconomic status predicts a wide array of health behaviors and health outcomes. However, the mechanisms linking socioeconomic status and health are still not fully understood. One candidate mechanism is negative affect, but research demonstrating that socioeconomic status-related negative affect plays a role in this context is rare. In the present work, I examine whether negative affect mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and health across several contexts. In addition, I examine whether cognitive reappraisal -- a highly effective affect regulation strategy -- might provide some protection against any ill effects of socioeconomic status on affect and health. In Chapter 1, I outline a theoretical model that motivates this dissertation, and I highlight gaps in the existing research in this area. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate that negative affect mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and unhealthy eating, a health behavior that is a major public health concern. In Chapter 3, I show that negative affect prospectively mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and weight-gain over a ten-year period. In Chapter 4, I broaden the focus from eating and weight-related disease to demonstrate that negative affect prospectively mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and four markers of morbidity as well as mortality. In addition, I show that reappraisal moderates these effects such that low socioeconomic status individuals who score high (versus low) on a novel measure of reappraisal experience fewer of the negative physical and psychological effects of their low status. In Chapter 5, I treat the Great Recession as a naturalistic manipulation of socioeconomic status and show that negative affect mediates the relationship between recession-related hardship and four markers of morbidity. However, reappraisal does not moderate these relationships. In Chapter 6, I summarize these findings and highlight exciting directions for future research
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | O'Leary, Daniel James |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Gross, James J |
| Thesis advisor | Gross, James J |
| Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Knutson, Brian |
| Degree committee member | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Degree committee member | Knutson, Brian |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel O'Leary |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Daniel James O'Leary
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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