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标题：The effect of subjective and objective social class on health-related quality of life: new paradigm using longitudinal analysis
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作者：Young Choi ; Jae-Hyun Kim ; Eun-Cheol Park 等
期刊名称：Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
印刷版ISSN：1477-7525
电子版ISSN：1477-7525
出版年度：2015
卷号：13
期号：1
页码：121
DOI：10.1186/s12955-015-0319-0
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：To investigate the impact of the gap between subjective and objective social status on health-related quality of life. We analyzed data from 12,350 participants aged ≥18 years in the Korean Health Panel Survey. Health-related quality of life was measured by EuroQol-Visual analogue scale. Objective (income and education) and subjective social class (measured by MacArthur scale) was classified into three groups (High, Middle, Low). In terms of a gap between objective and subjective social class, social class was grouped into nine categories ranging from High–High to Low–Low. A linear mixed model was used to investigate the association between the combined social class and health-related quality of life. The impact of the gap between objective and subjective status on Health-related quality of life varied according to the type of gap. Namely, at any given subjective social class, an individual’s quality of life declined with a decrease in the objective social class. At any given objective social class (e.g., HH, HM, HL; in terms of both education and income), an individual’s quality of life declined with a one-level decrease in subjective social class. Our results suggest that studies of the relationship between social class and health outcomes may consider the multidimensional nature of social status.
关键词：Social Class ; Subjective Social Status ; Equivalized Household Income ; Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale ; Health Outcome Variable