SynthesisHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2014
Subjective socioeconomic status and adolescent health: a meta-analysis.
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- Socioeconomic status and health behavior in children and adolescents: a systematic literature review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- The relation between family socioeconomic status and depressive symptoms among children and adolescents in mainland China: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Self-enhancement and physical health: A meta-analysis.The British journal of social psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Socioeconomic status and child psychopathology in the United States: A meta-analysis of population-based studies.Clinical psychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Is subjective social status a unique correlate of physical health? A meta-analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2017Pooled it
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- Psychological Resilience, Experimentally Manipulated Social Status, and Dietary Intake among Adolescents.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Distinct facets of other-oriented social cognition show differential associations with internalizing symptoms in young women with low subjective social status.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2026Article
- Multisystem Environmental Factors Elucidate Shared and Distinct Associations With Brain and Behavior in Adolescents.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status and adolescent brain responses to peer feedback: Testing relationships with negative and positive affect assessed outside of the lab.Development and psychopathology · 2026Article
- Money and the Mind: Financial Well-Being, Mental Health, and Loneliness in a Large Cohort of Emerging Adults.Mental health & prevention · 2026Article
- Objective-Subjective Socioeconomic Status Configurations, Self-Acceptance, and Adolescent Prosocial Moral Reasoning: A Response Surface Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Psychological and Socioeconomic Determinants of Mental Health in Higher Education Students: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Mechanisms linking family socioeconomic status to children's depressive symptoms: a longitudinal moderated mediation analysis.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
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- From peers to partners: The peer-context origins of adolescent heterosexual romance.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Externalized anger as a mediator of harsh parenting and substance use among Appalachian adolescents.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- The association between ADHD symptoms and different dimensions of problematic use of social media among adolescent: results from the "LifeOnSoMe"-study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Effects of subjective socioeconomic and social statuses on food choice in adolescents.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo comprehensively and quantitatively examine the association between subjective socioeconomic status (SES) and health outcomes during adolescence.
methodsForty-four studies met criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis. Information on study quality, demographics, subjective SES, health outcomes, and covariates were extracted from each study. Fisher's Z was selected as the common effect size metric across studies. Random-effect meta-analytic models were employed and fail-safe numbers were generated to address publication bias.
resultsOverall, subjective SES was associated with health during adolescence (Fisher's Z = .10). The magnitude of the effect varied by type of health outcome, with larger effects observed for mental health outcomes, self-rated health, and general health symptoms; and nonsignificant effects observed for biomarkers of health and substance-use-related health behaviors. Of the measures of subjective SES employed in the reviewed studies, perception of financial constraints, was most strongly associated with adolescent health outcomes. Analysis of covariates indicated that inclusion of objective SES covariates did not affect the association between subjective SES and health.
conclusionsThis meta-analysis has implications for the measurement of subjective SES in adolescents, for the conceptualization of subjective and objective SES, and for the pathways between SES and health in adolescents.
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