The Role of Psychosocial Processes in Explaining the Gradient Between Socioeconomic Status and Health Export

@article{adler03, abstract = {The gradient between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well established: Many measures of health show that health increases as SES increases. However, the mechanisms underlying this association are not well understood. Behavioral, cognitive, and affective tendencies that develop in response to the greater psychosocial stress encountered in low-SES environments may partially mediate the impact of SES on health. Although these tendencies might be helpful for coping in the short term, over time they may contribute to the development of allostatic load, which increases vulnerability to disease. Debate remains regarding the direction of causation between SES and health, the impact of income inequality, the interaction of SES with race-ethnicity and gender, and the effects of SES over the life course.}, address = {Univ. of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St., San Francisco, CA 94143-0848, United States}, author = {Adler, N. E. and Snibbe, A. C.}, citeulike-article-id = {1938933}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?view=extended&origin=resultslist&eid=2-s2.0-0042919356}, journal = {Current Directions in Psychological Science}, keywords = {bio, explanation, health, income, mechanisms, mortality, psychosocial, ses}, number = {4}, pages = {119--123}, posted-at = {2007-11-19 19:17:21}, priority = {0}, title = {The Role of Psychosocial Processes in Explaining the Gradient Between Socioeconomic Status and Health}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?view=extended&origin=resultslist&eid=2-s2.0-0042919356}, volume = {12}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - adler03 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1938933 N2 - The gradient between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well established: Many measures of health show that health increases as SES increases. However, the mechanisms underlying this association are not well understood. Behavioral, cognitive, and affective tendencies that develop in response to the greater psychosocial stress encountered in low-SES environments may partially mediate the impact of SES on health. Although these tendencies might be helpful for coping in the short term, over time they may contribute to the development of allostatic load, which increases vulnerability to disease. Debate remains regarding the direction of causation between SES and health, the impact of income inequality, the interaction of SES with race-ethnicity and gender, and the effects of SES over the life course. IS - 4 JF - Current Directions in Psychological Science AD - Univ. of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St., San Francisco, CA 94143-0848, United States EP - 123 TI - The Role of Psychosocial Processes in Explaining the Gradient Between Socioeconomic Status and Health VL - 12 SP - 119 KW - bio KW - explanation KW - health KW - income KW - mechanisms KW - mortality KW - psychosocial KW - ses AU - Adler, NE AU - Snibbe, AC PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?view=extended&origin=resultslist&eid=2-s2.0-0042919356 ER -