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What Are the Health Consequences of Upward Mobility?

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Health disparities by socioeconomic status (SES) have been extensively documented, but less is known about the physical health implications of achieving upward mobility. This article critically reviews the evolving literature in this area, concluding that upward mobility is associated with a trade-off, whereby economic success and positive mental health in adulthood can come at the expense of physical health, a pattern termed skin-deep resilience. We consider explanations for this phenomenon, including prolonged high striving, competing demands between the environments upwardly mobile individuals seek to enter and their environments of origin, cultural mismatches between adaptive strategies from their childhood environments and those that are valued in higher-SES environments, and the sense of alienation, lack of belonging, and discrimination that upwardly mobile individuals face as they move into spaces set up by and for high-SES groups. These stressors are hypothesized to lead to unhealthy behaviors and a dysregulation of biological systems, with implications for cardiometabolic health.

upward mobilitysocioeconomic statusbiological processeshealth behaviorscardiovascular healthCOURSE SOCIOECONOMIC POSITIONEFFORT-REWARD IMBALANCEAFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMENINTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL-MOBILITYCORONARY-HEART-DISEASESTRESSFUL LIFE EVENTSSKIN-DEEP RESILIENCESHORT-SLEEP DURATIONSHIFT-AND-PERSISTPHYSICAL-ACTIVITY

Chen, Edith、Brody, Gene H.、Miller, Gregory E.

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Northwestern Univ

Univ Georgia

2022

10.1146/annurev-psych-033020-122814

Annual Review of Psychology

Annual Review of Psychology

SCI
ISSN：0066-4308
年,卷(期)：2022.73
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