Open AccessThe Serpent of Their Agonies
Author(s) -
Seth J. Prins,
Sarah McKetta,
Jonathan Platt,
Carles Muntaner,
Katherine M. Keyes,
Lisa M. Bates
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000001304
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , mental health , odds , odds ratio , psychology , confidence interval , operationalization , mental illness , social stratification , cohort , demography , medicine , logistic regression , psychiatry , sociology , population , philosophy , social science , epistemology
Social stratification is a well-documented determinant of mental health. Traditional measures of stratification (e.g., socioeconomic status) reduce dynamic social processes to individual attributes downstream of mechanisms that generate stratification. In this study, we measure one process theorized to generate and reproduce social stratification-economic exploitation-and explore its association with mental health.