scholarly journals Support for Economic Inequality Scale: Development and Adjudication

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Wiwad ◽  
Brett Gregory Mercier ◽  
Azim Shariff ◽  
Lara aknin ◽  
Angela R Robinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scale Development ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Reliable Instrument

Past research has documented myriad pernicious psychological effects of high economic inequality, prompting interest into how people perceive, evaluate, and react to inequality. Here we propose, refine, and validate the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (SEIS) – a novel measure of attitudes towards economic inequality. In Study 1, we distill eighteen items down to five, providing evidence for unidimensionality and reliability. In Study 2, we replicate the scale’s unidimensionality and reliability and demonstrate its validity. In Study 3, we evaluate a United States version of the SEIS. Finally, in Studies 4-5, we demonstrate the SEIS’s convergent and predictive validity. The SEIS is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing perceptions of and reactions to economic inequality and provides a useful tool for researchers investigating the psychological underpinnings of economic inequality.

scholarly journals The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062199686
Author(s):  
Anita Schmalor ◽  
Steven J. Heine
Keyword(s):  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Subjective Measure ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
American Sample ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Measures Of Inequality

Economic inequality has been associated with a host of social ills, but most research has focused on objective measures of inequality. We argue that economic inequality also has a subjective component, and understanding the effects of economic inequality will be deepened by considering the ways that people perceive inequality. In an American sample ( N = 1,014), we find that some of the key variables that past research has found to correlate with objective inequality also correlate with a subjective measure of inequality. Across six countries ( N = 683), we find that the relationship between subjective inequality and different psychological variables varies by country. Subjective inequality shows only modest correlations with objective inequality and varies by sociodemographic background.

Sex Roles in Advertising: A Comparison of Television Advertisements in Australia, Mexico, and the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. Gilly
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Advertisements

In the past, research has found that the portrayal of sex roles in advertising has not reflected equality or reality. Further, studies typically have examined only U.S. advertising, leaving open the question of cultural influence on advertising's sex role portrayals. The author offers a new analysis of sex roles in advertising and compares content analysis findings for U.S., Australian, and Mexican television advertisements. Results reveal differences in the portrayal of the sexes in U.S. advertisements. Australian advertisements show somewhat fewer sex role differences and Mexican advertisements show slightly more sex role differences than U.S. advertisements. Stereotypes are found in the advertising of all three countries, but are manifested in different ways.

Causes of Changing Inequality in the United States

Inequality ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Affluent Society

A half-century ago, the study of economic inequality was moribund in the United States. Indeed, in 1958 John Kenneth Galbraith noted in The Affluent Society that “few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality...

Immigration Trends in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Rothe ◽  
Andres J. Pumariega
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Time Of Arrival ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
The Family

The chapter on immigration trends describes the current legal and illegal paths of immigration to the United States; a historical perspective of the reasons for migration; the past and current numbers of immigrants who have arrived in the United States and their demographic profile; which countries contribute immigrants and which states receive them; the changing race and ethnicity of the immigrants throughout the country’s history; the immigrants’ levels of education, skill sets, and financial attainment at the time of arrival and after the second generation. A demographic profile of the illegal immigrants, their vulnerability for exploitation, and their financial importance to the country’s economy is presented. The composition of immigrant families, some of the psychological effects of geographical separations and deportations on the family, factors that facilitate or impede assimilation and adaptation, the intergroup relations, values, and political orientation of the different immigrant groups, and the immigrants’ financial contributions to the United States are discussed.

Socioeconomic Dualism: The Case of Israeli-born Immigrants in the United States

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinon Cohen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Past Research ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
Education Industry

Relying on the 1980 U. S. Census of Foreign-Born Population and the 1979 INS Public Use File, this article compares Israeli-born Americans (including Arabs) to both the United States and Israeli populations with respect to age, marital status, unemployment, education, industry, occupation and income as of 1979–80. Some of the results, mainly those pertaining to the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Israeli immigrants as compared to their society of origin, corroborate previous research. Thus, Israeli-born immigrants in the United States held top white-collar jobs and were less likely to be unemployed than the rest of the Israeli labor force. Once in America, however, it seems that not all Israeli-born Americans are as successful as portrayed by past research. In fact, the Census data reveal occupational and economic dualism among the population of Israeli-born Americans. The reasons for this dualism are discussed.

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