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Wealth, Health, and the Moderating Role of Implicit Social Class Bias

Neha A. John‐Henderson · Emily Goard Jacobs · Rodolfo Mendoza‐Denton · Darlene D Francis

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Subjective social status (captured by the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status) is in many cases a stronger predictor of health outcomes than objective socioeconomic status (SES). PURPOSE: The study aims to test whether implicit beliefs about social class moderate the relationship between subjective social status and inflammation. METHODS: We measured implicit social class bias, subjective social status, SES, and baseline levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker of inflammation, in 209 healthy adults. RESULTS: Implicit social class bias significantly moderated the relationship between subjective social status and levels of IL-6, with a stronger implicit association between the concepts "lower class" and "bad" predicting greater levels of IL-6. CONCLUSIONS: Implicit social class bias moderates the relationship between subjective social status and health outcomes via regulation of levels of the inflammatory cytokine IL-6. High implicit social class bias, particularly when one perceives oneself as having low social standing, may increase vulnerability to inflammatory processes.

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