Investigating the effects of temporal and interpersonal relative deprivation on health in China

Lei Jin and Tony Tam

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 143, issue C, 26-35

Abstract: We argue that in addition to interpersonal relative deprivation, it is important to examine how temporal relative deprivation influences health, especially in rapidly changing societies such as China. We develop four competing hypotheses regarding the possible effects of temporal relative deprivation on health. Moreover, we propose that temporal relative deprivation may confound the health effects of interpersonal relative deprivation, and for the sake of conceptual clarity, temporal relative deprivation needs to be accounted for in the examination of interpersonal relative deprivation.

Keywords: Heath inequality; Interpersonal relative deprivation; Temporal relative deprivation; Subjective social status; Social mobility; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.08.014

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