Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 19, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 108-119

Subjective Social Status and Self-Reported Health Among US-born and Immigrant Latinos (Article)

Garza J.R.* , Glenn B.A. , Mistry R.S. , Ponce N.A. , Zimmerman F.J.
  • a Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, United States
  • b Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • c Department of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • d Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, United States, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  • e Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, United States

Abstract

Subjective social status is associated with a range of health outcomes. Few studies have tested the relevance of subjective social status among Latinos in the U.S.; those that have yielded mixed results. Data come from the Latino subsample of the 2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (N = 2554). Regression models adjusted for socioeconomic and demographic factors. Stratified analyses tested whether nativity status modifies the effect of subjective social status on health. Subjective social status was associated with better health. Income and education mattered more for health than subjective social status among U.S.-born Latinos. However, the picture was mixed among immigrant Latinos, with subjective social status more strongly predictive than income but less so than education. Subjective social status may tap into stressful immigrant experiences that affect one’s perceived self-worth and capture psychosocial consequences and social disadvantage left out by conventional socioeconomic measures. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Author Keywords

Subjective social status Latino Socioeconomic status self-rated health USA

Index Keywords

human sex difference Self Report middle aged health status Aged Hispanic Americans United States Young Adult Humans migrant psychology Hispanic Adolescent male Emigrants and Immigrants female Aged, 80 and over Socioeconomic Factors very elderly socioeconomics adult age Sex Factors Age Factors social class
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958764947&doi=10.1007%2fs10903-016-0346-x&partnerID=40&md5=17a20b87ee77d3820d44ab5550464a41
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-016-0346-x
ISSN: 15571912
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English