Examining parents' assessments of objective and subjective social status in families of children with cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gage Bouchard, Elizabeth A ^a   Devine, Katie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MACARTHUR SCALE OF SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; FATHER; MOTHER; NEOPLASMS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MOTHERS; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84897141177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089842     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Iida H, Rozier RG (2013) Mother-perceived social capital and children's oral health and use of dental care in the United States. Am J Public Health 103: 480-7.
2. Thompson AL, Nentleu ME (2012) The critical period of infant feeding for the development of early disparities in obesity. Soc Sci Med doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.12.007.
3. Mehta NK, Lee H, Ylitalo KR (2012) Child health in the United States: recent trends in racial/ethnic disparities. Soc Sci Med doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.09.011.
4. Braveman PA, Cubbin C, Egerter S, Chideya C, Marchi KS, et al (2005) Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all. JAMA 294: 2879-2888. (Pubitemid 41785869)
5. Krieger N, Williams DR, Moss NE (1997) Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelines. Annu Rev Public Health 18: 341-378 (Pubitemid 27194075)
6. Lareau A (2000) My wife can tell me who I know: methodological and conceptual problems in studying fathers. Qual Sociol 23: 407-433.
7. Mitchell SJ, See HM, Tarkow AKH, Cabrera N, McFadden KE, et al (2007) Conducting studies with fathers: challenges and opportunities. Appl Dev Sci 11: 239-244.
8. Gage EA (2010) Examining the most relevant conceptualization of the socioeconomic status construct for cancer research. Cancer Nurs 33: E1-E9.
9. Duncan GJ, Petersen E (2001). The long and short of asking questions about income, wealth, and labor supply. Soc Sci Res 30: 248-263. (Pubitemid 33636656)
10. Galobardes B, Demarest S (2003). Asking sensitive information: an example with income. Int J Public Health 48: 70-72. (Pubitemid 36519494)
11. Subramanyam MA, Diez-Roux AV, Hickson DA, Sarpong DF, Sims M, et al (2012) Subjective social status and psychosocial and metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study. Soc Sci Med 74: 1146-1154.
12. Wolff LS, Acevedo-Garcia D, Subramanian SV, Weber D, Kawachi I (2009). Subjective social status, a new measure in health disparities research: do race/ethnicity and choice of referent group matter? J Health Psychol 15: 560-574.
13. Wolff LS, Subramanian SV, Acevedo-Garcia D, Weber D, Kawachi I (2010) Compared to whom? Subjective social status, self-rated health, and referent group sensitivity in a diverse US sample. Soc Sci Med 70: 2019-2028.
14. Singh-Manoux A, Adler NE, Marmot MG (2003) Subjective social status: Its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study, Soc Sci Med 56: 1321-1333. (Pubitemid 36216329)
15. Jackman MR, Jackman RW (1973) An interpretation of the relation between objective and subjective social status. Am Sociol Rev 38: 569-582.
16. Jackman MR (1979). The subjective meaning of social class identification in the United States." Public Opin Q 43: 443-462.
17. Adler NE, Epel ES, Castellazzo G, Ickovics JR (2000) Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: preliminary data in healthy white women. Health Psychol 19: 586-592.
18. Adler NE, Singh-Manoux A, Schwartz J, Stewart J, Matthews K, et al (2008) Social status and health: a comparison of British civil servants in Whitehall-II with European- and African-Americans in CARDIA. Soc Sci Med 66: 1034-1045.
19. Ostrove JM, Adler NE, Kuppermann M, Washington AE (2000) Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women. Health Psychol 19: 613-618.
20. Adler NE, Stewart J (2007) The MacArthur scale of subjective social status. Retrieved 4/15/2012 http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/research/psychosocial/ subjective.php.
21. Ghaed SG, Gallo LC (2007) Subjective social status, objective social status, and cardiovascular risk in women. Health Psychol 26: 668-674. (Pubitemid 350161068)
22. Singh-Manoux A, Marmot MG, Adler NE (2005) Does subjective social status predict health and change in health status better than objective status? Psychosom Medi 67: 855-861. (Pubitemid 43740098)
23. Goldman N, Cornman JC, Chang MC (2006). Measuring subjective social status: a case study of older Taiwanese. J Cross Cult Gerontol 21: 71-89.
24. Hu P, Adler NE, Goldman N, Weinstein M, Seeman TE (2005) Relationship between subjective social status and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons. J Am Geriatr Soc 53: 483-488. (Pubitemid 41623530)