Subjective social status, self-rated health and tobacco smoking : Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).

Camelo, Lidyane do Valle; Giatti, Luana; Barreto, Sandhi Maria

Subjective social status, self-rated health and tobacco smoking : Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).

Date

2013

Authors

Camelo, Lidyane do Valle

Giatti, Luana

Barreto, Sandhi Maria

Abstract

Using baseline data from ELSA-Brasil (N = 15,105), we investigated whether subjective social status, measured using three 10-rung “ladders,” is associated with self-rated health and smoking, independently of objective indicators of social position and depression symptoms. Additionally, we explored whether the magnitude of these associations varies according to the reference group. Subjective social status was independently associated with poor self-rated health and weakly associated with former smoking. The references used for social comparison did not change these associations significantly. Subjective social status, education, and income represent distinct aspects of social inequities, and the impact of each of these indicators on health is different.

Keywords

ELSA-Brasil, Health inequities, Self-rated health, Subjective social status

Citation

CAMELO, L. do V.; GIATTI, L.; BARRETO, S. M. Subjective social status, self-rated health and tobacco smoking: Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Journal of Health Psychology, v. 19, p. 1388–1399. Disponível em: <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105313490772?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed>. Acesso em: 21 mar. 2017.