Do Socioeconomic Factors Influence Who Is Most Likely to Relocate after Environmental Disasters? A Case Study in Indonesia

Environmental mobility (residential moves influenced by environmental factors) is increasingly recognized as an important issue, both today and under future conditions of climate change. Those who experience climate- and weather-related disasters rarely respond as a homogenous group of migrants, yet relatively limited studies have specifically examined individual-level heterogeneities across those exposed. In this paper, we used self-reported data to investigate differences in sociodemographics (age, marital status, sex, and education) between those who relocated after environmental disruptions in Indonesia and those who did not relocate. Individuals with 12 years of education at the time of an environmental exposure were 3.93 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.38, 11.20) times more likely to move for environmental reasons than those with <12 years of education. Assuming education as a proxy for socioeconomic status, these findings suggest that those in the mid-range socioeconomic brackets may be most likely to migrate after environmental disruptions, while the poorest are less likely to move. This may reflect that the costs of relocation are prohibitively high for those with lower socioeconomic status. Collectively, these results add to an inconsistent body of literature on environmental mobility and indicate that further site- and context-specific research on climate- and weather-related relocation is needed.

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Sociodemographic, Sociocultural, and Individual Predictors of Reported Feelings of Meaninglessness among South African Adolescents

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.95.3f.1271-1278 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 95 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1271-1278 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Neo K. Morojele ◽

Judith S. Brook

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

South African ◽

Female Students ◽

Sociocultural Factors ◽

Hiv Status ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Parental Occupation ◽

Individual Level ◽

Symptoms Of Depression ◽

Lower Socioeconomic

The purpose of the study was to predict adolescents' sense of meaninglessness about South Africa's sociopolitical situation from sociodemographic, individual level, and sociocultural factors. The participants comprised 39 male and 64 female students from three schools in Cape Town, and had a mean age of 15.2 yr. ( SD = 1.8 yr.). They completed an adaptation of Neal and Groat's Meaninglessness scale and measures of sociodemographic (age, sex, and parental occupation, household amenities, and household hunger as proxy measures of socioeconomic status), sociocultural (cultural pride and an adaptation of McClosky and Schaar's anomy scale), and individual level (depression, general life satisfaction, and knowledge of HIV status) factors. A multiple regression analysis indicated that the adolescents with higher reported scores for meaninglessness about South Africa's sociopolitical situation reported lower socioeconomic status, a stronger sense of anomy, and more symptoms of depression.

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When does deprivation motivate future-oriented thinking? The case of climate change

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x17001066 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

Author(s):

Adam R. Pearson ◽

Sander van der Linden

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Decision Making ◽

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Mortality Risk ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Extrinsic Mortality ◽

Cross Domain ◽

Lower Socioeconomic

AbstractPepper & Nettle overstate cross-domain evidence of present-oriented thinking among lower-socioeconomic-status (SES) groups and overlook key social and contextual drivers of temporal decision making. We consider psychological research on climate change – a quintessential intertemporal problem that implicates inequities and extrinsic mortality risk – documenting more future-oriented thinking among low- compared to high-SES groups.

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Explaining the higher prevalence of major depressive disorder observed in lower socioeconomic status groups: Incidence, duration or recurrence?

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e508992013-177 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Amber Bielecky ◽

Cameron Mustard ◽

William Gnam ◽

Sheilah Hogg-Johnson

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Major Depressive Disorder ◽

Depressive Disorder ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Major Depressive ◽

Lower Socioeconomic

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Lower socioeconomic status in childhood linked to racial differences in disability during adulthood

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e554832010-012 ◽

2010 ◽

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Racial Differences ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Lower Socioeconomic

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Barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer in black men arise from lower socioeconomic status

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e706762007-008 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Prostate Cancer ◽

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Black Men ◽

Diagnosis And Treatment ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Timely Diagnosis ◽

Lower Socioeconomic

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Commentary: Are Cardiac Surgeons Treating Patients of Lower Socioeconomic Status Differently?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery ◽

10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.09.009 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Lee ◽

Neal Weintraub

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Lower Socioeconomic ◽

Cardiac Surgeons

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Social Disparities in Adopting Non-pharmaceutical Interventions During COVID-19

Journal of Developing Societies ◽

10.1177/0169796x21996858 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0169796X2199685

Author(s):

Svenn-Erik Mamelund ◽

Jessica Dimka ◽

Nan Zou Bakkeli

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Survey Data ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Positive Association ◽

Social Disparities ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Home Office ◽

Disease Outcomes ◽

Lower Socioeconomic ◽

Pharmaceutical Interventions

In the absence of vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 governments had to respond by rely on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Socioeconomic inequalities likely influenced the uptake of NPIs. Using Norwegian survey data, we study whether income was associated with increased handwashing, keeping 1 m distance, using facemasks increased use of home office, and less use of public transportation. Except for using facemasks and less public transportation in a non-work context, all analyzed NPIs showed an independent positive association with income. Social disparities in NPI uptake may be important drivers of higher risks of disease outcomes for people of lower socioeconomic status.

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Is Fringe Baking A Component of Socially Determined Health?

American Journal of Health Studies ◽

10.47779/ajhs.2017.83 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Courtney L Hundley ◽

Richard W. Wilson ◽

John Chenault ◽

Jamie L. Smimble

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Health Status ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Health It ◽

Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽

Health Measures ◽

Lower Socioeconomic ◽

Level Data ◽

Indirect Association ◽

Zip Code

This was an exploratory study to assess the association between density of fringe lenders (e.g.payday) and health status. For Louisville, Kentucky, ZIP code level data on hospitalizations and mortalityrates as health measures were compared to fringe bank locations. We found lower socioeconomic status(SES) positively correlated with greater frequency of fringe banks; rates of illness appear to be higher in ZIPcodes with more fringe banks, but this finding was not statistically significant. In conclusion, neighbor-hoods between higher frequencies of fringe banks appear to have poorer health; it is premature to rule in orrule out a direct or indirect association between neighborhood presence of fringe banks, but there is enoughevidence to justify additional research to put any conclusions on a firmer footing.

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