The Global Financial Crisis and Individual Distress: The Role of Subjective Comparisons after the Collapse of the Icelandic Economy

Sociology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 755-775

  Ragnarsdóttir, Berglind Hólm ^a   Bernburg, Jón Gunnar ^b   Ólafsdóttir, Sigrún ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic crisis; emotional distress; Iceland; relative deprivation; subjective comparisons; subjective injustice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881251233     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038512453790     Document Type: Article

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