Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women
Jm. Ostrove et al., Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women, HEALTH PSYC, 19(6), 2000, pp. 613-618
A new measure of subjective socioeconomic status (SES) was examined in rela
tion to self-rated physical health in pregnant women. Except among African
Americans, subjective SES was significantly related to education, household
income, and occupation. Subjective SES was significantly related to self-r
ated health among all groups. In multiple regression analyses, subjective S
ES was a significant predictor of self-rated health after the effects of ob
jective indicators were accounted for among White and Chinese American wome
n; among African American women and Latinas, household income was the only
significant predictor of self-rated health. After accounting for the effect
s of subjective SES on health, objective indicators made no additional cont
ribution to explaining health among White and Chinese American women; house
hold income continued to predict health after accounting for subjective SES
among Latinas and African American women.