Best practices in conceptualizing and measuring social class in psychological research

MA Diemer, RS Mistry, ME Wadsworth… - Analyses of Social …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An extensive body of research has documented the relation between social class, as
indexed by socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective social status (SSS), and a host of …

Expanding the family economic stress model: Insights from a mixed‐methods approach

RS Mistry, ED Lowe, AD Benner… - Journal of marriage and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The current study used a mixed‐methods approach to examine how low‐income mothers
managed their household economies, their experiences of economic pressure, and the …

Housing affordability and investments in children

SJ Newman, CS Holupka - Journal of Housing Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper uses the 2004–2009 Consumer Expenditure Surveys to examine whether
housing affordability affects expenditures on children in families with income at or below …

It's all in the family: Parents' economic worries and youth's perceptions of financial stress and educational outcomes

RS Mistry, L Elenbaas - Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2021 - Springer
Perceived economic stress and lower subjective social status (SSS) have adverse effects on
parents' and adolescents' emotional well-being, but less is known about associations with …

Economic hardship and adolescent behavioral outcomes: Within-and between-family associations

P Miller, L Blatt, D Hunter-Rue, KR Barry… - Development and …, 2025 - cambridge.org
Understanding how youth perceive household economic hardship and how it relates to their
behavior is vital given associations between hardship and behavioral development. Yet …

“Robbing Peter to pay Paul”: Economic and cultural explanations for how lower-income families manage debt

LM Tach, SS Greene - Social Problems, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This article builds upon classic economic perspectives of financial behavior by applying the
narrative identity perspective of cultural sociology to explain how lower-income families …

Monthly unconditional income supplements starting at birth: Experiences among mothers of young children with low incomes in the US

S Halpern‐Meekin, LA Gennetian… - Journal of Policy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, US advocates and funders have supported direct cash transfers for individuals
and families as an efficient, immediate, and non‐paternalistic path to poverty alleviation …

Ethnic variation in poverty and parenting stress

RC Cassells, GW Evans - Parental stress and early child development …, 2017 - Springer
Poverty is a critical issue facing many families in the USA, many of whom belong to racial
and ethnic minority groups. Our chapter focuses on the impact of poverty on parenting stress …

Eight‐to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes

A Ackerman, L Elenbaas - Social Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drawing on social identity development theory, this study investigated a socioeconomically
diverse sample of 8‐to 12‐year‐old US children's (N= 93) subjective social status (SSS) …

The Role of SES in Preadolescence: Understandings and Group Evaluations based on Income, Education, and Occupation

I Boer, F Fleischmann, J Thijs - Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2024 - Springer
Socioeconomic status (SES) predicts many facets of preadolescents' life opportunities, yet
little is known about how children perceive SES and whether it plays a role in their group …