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  2. Socioeconomic status (SES) encompasses not only income but also educational attainment, occupational prestige, and subjective perceptions of social status and social class. SES reflects quality-of-life attributes and opportunities afforded to people within society and is a consistent predictor of a vast array of psychological outcomes.

  3. Education and Socioeconomic Status - American Psychological...

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    Socioeconomic status (SES) encompasses not just income but also educational attainment, financial security, and subjective perceptions of social status and social class. Socioeconomic status can encompass quality of life attributes as well as the opportunities and privileges afforded to people within society.

  4. Measuring Socioeconomic Status and Subjective Social Status

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    One objective of the Stop Skipping Class campaign is to provide best practices for measuring socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective social status (SSS). An important determinant of the approach you will use to measure SES and SSS is the level at which you plan to assess its effects — the societal level, the community or neighborhood level ...

  5. Children, Youth, Families and Socioeconomic Status

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    Socioeconomic status (SES) encompasses not just income but also educational attainment, occupational prestige, and subjective perceptions of social status and social class. Socioeconomic status can encompass quality of life attributes as well as the opportunities and privileges afforded to people within society.

  6. Ethnic and Racial Minorities & Socioeconomic Status

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    Socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity have been associated with avoidable procedures, avoidable hospitalizations, and untreated disease (Fiscella, Franks, Gold, & Clancy, 2008). At each level of income or education, African-Americans have worse outcomes than Whites.

  7. Socioeconomic Status Portfolio The Socioeconomic Status (SES) Portfolio is responsible for directing, overseeing, facilitating and promoting psychology’s contribution to the understanding of SES and the lives and well-being of the poor.

  8. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons and Socioeconomic...

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    An individual’s socioeconomic position may also be related to experiences of discrimination. Evidence has shown that gay and bisexual men who earned higher incomes were significantly less likely to report discrimination compared to those of lower socioeconomic position.

  9. Classroom Exercises: Inclusion of Socioeconomic Status in...

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    Inclusion of Socioeconomic Status in Psychology Curricula These exercises have been contributed by colleagues in response to requests for exercises designed to raise the awareness of psychology students about social class and socioeconomic issues in six categories: attitudes; discrimination; income; oppression; privilege; properties and resources.

  10. Work, Stress and Health & Socioeconomic Status

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    Socioeconomic status (SES) encompasses not just income but also educational attainment, financial security, and subjective perceptions of social status and social class.

  11. Fighting poverty - American Psychological Association (APA)

    www.apa.org/monitor/2015/07-08/cover-poverty

    Among adolescents of lower socioeconomic status, the shift-and-persist approach appears to reduce the risk of asthma-related problems, obesity and other health issues, Chen has found. In a 2013 paper in Child Development , for example, she and colleagues found that young people who used the strategy most had lower levels of interleukin-6, a ...