Evolutionary Aspects of Scarcity Information with Regard to Travel Options: The Role of Childhood Socioeconomic Status

2020 ◽  
pp. 004728752097104
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Park ◽  
Jungkeun Kim ◽  
Seongseop (Sam) Kim
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Consumer Information ◽  
Hotel Room ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Evolutionary Aspects ◽  
Potential Customers

This research used three experimental studies to examine the effect of scarcity information on choosing a hotel room online. The studies also investigated the moderating role of the buyer’s childhood socioeconomic status (SES), using evolutionary perspectives and the life history theory. Our findings revealed that travelers showed a preference for a hotel room option if they were given information that the room was scarce. This preference was stronger for travelers who had low childhood SES and who were low in materialistic traits. The findings of this empirical research add academic value by adopting the roles of heretofore novel concepts, childhood SES and materialism, in understanding the effects of consumer information messaging. The findings also add to the understanding of how context in online websites substantially affects potential travelers’ decision making. Therefore, this research will provide helpful guidance for making online websites more user-friendly and effective in their promotions to potential customers.

scholarly journals The Impact of Communication Information on the Perceived Threat of COVID-19 and Stockpiling Intention

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492110286
Author(s):  
Marilyn Giroux ◽  
Jooyoung Park ◽  
Jae-Eun Kim ◽  
Yung Kyun Choi ◽  
Jacob C. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Negative Information ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Behavior Study ◽  
Direct Explanation ◽  
Accuracy Study ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The Impact

This article investigates the role of diverse nudging communication strategies on perceived threat and stockpiling intention. Across three studies, the authors examined the various effects of “nudging” on consumer behavior. Study 1 demonstrates that a commonly used picture has a stronger impact on perceived threat than a less frequently exposed picture regardless of its accuracy. Study 2 shows that the perceived threat of COVID-19, in terms of severe health consequences, is lower when using an indirect (vs. direct) explanation of the virus, as well as when reducing the amount of information about the virus. Study 3 investigates the impact of salient negative information and childhood socioeconomic status (SES). Findings reveal that negative information about deaths associated with the virus increases the level of perceived threat and stockpiling intention, especially among people of low childhood SES.

The Impact of Same versus Different Price Presentation on Travel Choice and the Moderating Role of Childhood Socioeconomic Status

2021 ◽  
pp. 004728752098890
Author(s):  
Marilyn Giroux ◽  
Drew Franklin ◽  
Jungkeun Kim ◽  
Jooyoung Park ◽  
Kyuseop Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Price Difference ◽  
Product Evaluations ◽  
Relative Preference ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Travel Decisions ◽  
Price Differences ◽  
The Impact

When making travel decisions, consumers are frequently exposed to a multitude of options, including differing price levels for the same product or service across a range of online travel agencies. The current research investigates how the magnitude of price dispersion in online pricing can influence travelers’ product evaluations and purchase intentions. Specifically, we predict that travelers will prefer a hotel with no price dispersion to a hotel with different prices listed when the price difference is small, or narrow. However, when the price difference is more pronounced, or wide, travelers will prefer a hotel with price differences compared to a hotel with no price dispersion. Four experiments demonstrate that this effect is consistent across different contexts and categories. Additionally, based on life history theory, we argue that the relative preference for the same versus different price dispersion will be moderated by the travelers’ childhood socioeconomic status (SES).

The effect of childhood unpredictability on co-parenting relationships during the transition to parenthood: A life history approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 2438-2458
Author(s):  
Ohad Szepsenwol
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Life History Theory ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Parental Behaviors ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Environmental Unpredictability ◽  
History Approach

Recent extensions to life history theory posit that exposure to environmental unpredictability during childhood should forecast negative parental behaviors in adulthood. In the current research, this logic was extended to co-parental behaviors, which refer to how parents coordinate, share responsibility, and support each other’s parental efforts. The effects of early-life unpredictability on individual and dyadic co-parental functioning were examined in a sample of 109 families (two parents and their firstborn child) who were followed longitudinally from before the child’s birth until the age of two. Greater early-life unpredictability (family changes, residential changes, and parents’ occupational changes by age 8) experienced by mothers, but not fathers, predicted more negative co-parental behaviors in triadic observations 6 months post birth, and lower couple-reported co-parenting quality assessed 3, 9, 18, and 24 months post birth. These effects were not explained by parents’ childhood socioeconomic status or current relationship quality. These findings highlight the role of mothers in shaping co-parenting relationships and how these relationships might be influenced by mothers’ early-life experiences.

Cardiometabolic Risk and Cognitive Decline: The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuya Oi ◽  
Steven Haas
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Socioeconomic Attainment ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Retirement Study

Socioeconomic conditions in childhood predict cognitive functioning in later life. It is unclear whether poor childhood socioeconomic status (SES) also predicts the acceleration of cognitive decline. One proposed pathway is via cardiometabolic risk, which has been linked to both childhood SES and earlier onset of cognitive impairment. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the impact of childhood SES on cognitive trajectories over six years and test whether it operates through increased cardiometabolic risk and adult SES. We find that higher childhood SES leads to slower cognitive decline, partially due to lower levels of cardiometabolic risk. However, these pathways operate entirely through adult socioeconomic attainment. The results have important implications for future trends in cognitive population health within the context of growing social inequality and reduced social mobility.

scholarly journals Classism in Pain Care: The Role of Patient Socioeconomic Status on Nurses’ Pain Assessment and Management Practices

Pain Medicine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2094-2105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tânia Brandão ◽  
Lúcia Campos ◽  
Lies de Ruddere ◽  
Liesbet Goubert ◽  
Sónia F Bernardes
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Pain Assessment ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Distress Cues ◽  
Female Nurses ◽  
Pain Care ◽  
Detrimental Impact

Abstract Objective Research on social disparities in pain care has been mainly focused on the role of race/racism and sex/sexism. Classism in pain assessment and management practices has been much less investigated. We aimed to test the effect of patient socioeconomic status (SES; a proxy of social class) on nurses’ pain assessment and management practices and whether patient SES modulated the effects of patient distress and evidence of pathology on such practices. Design Two experimental studies with a two (patient SES: low/high) by two (patient distress or evidence of pathology: absent/present) between-subject design. Subjects Female nurses participated in two experimental studies (N = 150/N = 158). Methods Nurses were presented with a vignette/picture depicting the clinical case of a female with chronic low back pain, followed by a video of the patient performing a pain-inducing movement. Afterwards, nurses reported their pain assessment and management practices. Results The low-SES patient’s pain was assessed as less intense, more attributed to psychological factors, and considered less credible (in the presence of distress cues) than the higher-SES patient’s pain. Higher SES buffered the detrimental impact of the presence of distress cues on pain assessment. No effects were found on management practices. Conclusions Our findings point to the potential buffering role of SES against the detrimental effect of certain clinical cues on pain assessments. This study contributes to highlighting the need for further investigation of the role of SES/social class on pain care and its underlying meanings and processes.

scholarly journals Association of Childhood Socioeconomic Status with Leukocyte Telomere Length Among African Americans and the Mediating Role of Behavioral and Psychosocial Factors: Results from the GENE-FORECAST Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rumana J Khan ◽  
Belinda L Needham ◽  
Shailesh Advani ◽  
Kristen Brown ◽  
Casey Dagnall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Telomere Length ◽  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Dietary Habit ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mother’S Education ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Mother's Education

Abstract Purpose We examined if childhood socioeconomic status (SES) was related to adult leucocyte telomere length (TL) using the data of 361 African American (AA) participants from the GENE-FORECAST Study. We also assessed the mediating role of behavioral and psychosocial factors in the association between childhood SES and adult TL. Methods Childhood SES was assessed individually by using participant’s mother’s education and occupation, father’s education and occupation, parental home ownership, and family structure. TL was assessed using the quantitative polymerase chain reaction method. Information on potential confounders and mediators were collected. The associations of childhood SES with TL were assessed using multivariable linear regression models. We used path analysis to quantify and test the share of these associations that was statistically explained by each of the mediators (participant’s educational attainment, smoking status, physical activity, dietary habit, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms). Results Mother’s education was associated with longer average TL (β: 0.021; 95% CI: 0.001, 0.04, p=0.038) in confounder adjusted models. Once mediators were introduced in the model, the estimates were reduced and remained marginally significant (β: 0.017; 95% CI: −0.003, 0.038, p=0.061). According to path model, approximately 19% of the effect of mother’s education on TL (β: 0.004; 95% CI: −0.001, 0.01, p < 0.10) was mediated through participant’s own education level. No significant mediation effect was observed for any other mediators. Conclusions These data provide evidence that participant’s mother’s education was positively linked to adult TL in AA population. Participant’s own educational level partially explained this association.

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