Social comparisons and health: Can having richer friends and neighbors make you sick?
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Social comparisons and health: can having richer friends and neighbors make you sick?
Do richer friends and neighbors improve your health through positive material effects, or do they make you feel worse through the negative effect of social comparison and relative deprivation? Using the newly available National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) data set that reports individuals' income positions within their self-defined social networks, this paper examines whether...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.017