Some Psychological Consequences of Inter-generation Mobility

Stacey, Barrie

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“…I should emphasize that this is not to say, as some previous literature has suggested (Stacey, ), that these individuals were unhappy people or suffered from psychological disorder. Not only is it far beyond my expertise to make such an assertion, but I must add that most interviewees seemed to be battling this multitude of emotions valiantly, even perhaps ‘successfully’.…”

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Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility

Friedman

2016

The Sociological Review

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Increasing social mobility is the 'principal goal' of the British Government's social policy (Cabinet Office, 2011: 5). However, while policy perspectives present mobility as an unambiguously progressive force, there is a striking absence of studies looking at the impact of mobility on individuals themselves. Drawing on 39 lifecourse interviews with upwardly mobile respondents drawn from the UK Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion Project (CCSE), this paper examines how mobility affects the psychic and emotional life of the individual. More specifically, it examines how mobility influences social, familial and intimate relationships, as well as the ontological coherence of the self. Following Bourdieu's (2004: 127) description of his own upward trajectory, the paper argues that the concept of a divided habitus, or habitus clivé, may be particularly useful for understanding some iterations of the contemporary mobility experience, particularly its most long-range forms. Such a concept, it argues, helps explain how the emotional pull of class loyalties can entangle subjects in the affinities of the past, and why -despite prevailing political rhetoric -upward mobility may remain a state that not everyone unequivocally aspires to.

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Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility

Friedman

2016

The Sociological Review

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“…A low level of education or poor control over working-life (low job control or insecure employment) may result in destructive ways of handling the stressors accompanied by such conditions, such as alcohol or drug abuse [ 32 ]. Socially mobile individuals may change their health behaviours [ 33 , 34 ] as they adjust their manners and lifestyle habits to “live up to” (or “live down to”) to their social class of destination [ 35 ]. It has also been suggested that socially mobile individuals experience stress, because of the social class change itself [ 36 ], with downward mobility being more disruptive than upward mobility [ 35 ].…”

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“…Socially mobile individuals may change their health behaviours [ 33 , 34 ] as they adjust their manners and lifestyle habits to “live up to” (or “live down to”) to their social class of destination [ 35 ]. It has also been suggested that socially mobile individuals experience stress, because of the social class change itself [ 36 ], with downward mobility being more disruptive than upward mobility [ 35 ]. This view is supported by the present findings, since the downwardly mobile display an increased risk of psychiatric disorder.…”

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Social Class, Social Mobility and Risk of Psychiatric Disorder - A Population-Based Longitudinal Study

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ObjectivesThis study explored how adult social class and social mobility between parental and own adult social class is related to psychiatric disorder.Material and MethodsIn this prospective cohort study, over 1 million employed Swedes born in 1949-1959 were included. Information on parental class (1960) and own mid-life social class (1980 and 1990) was retrieved from the censuses and categorised as High Non-manual, Low Non-manual, High Manual, Low Manual and Self-employed. After identifying adult class, individuals were followed for psychiatric disorder by first admission of schizophrenia, alcoholism and drug dependency, affective psychosis and neurosis or personality disorder (N=24 659) from the Swedish Patient Register. We used Poisson regression analysis to estimate first admission rates of psychiatric disorder per 100 000 person-years and relative risks (RR) by adult social class (treated as a time-varying covariate). The RRs of psychiatric disorder among the Non-manual and Manual classes were also estimated by magnitude of social mobility.ResultsThe rate of psychiatric disorder was significantly higher among individuals belonging to the Low manual class as compared with the High Non-manual class. Compared to High Non-manual class, the risk for psychiatric disorder ranged from 2.07 (Low Manual class) to 1.38 (Low Non-manual class). Parental class had a minor impact on these estimates. Among the Non-manual and Manual classes, downward mobility was associated with increased risk and upward mobility with decreased risk of psychiatric disorder. In addition, downward mobility was inversely associated with the magnitude of social mobility, independent of parental class.ConclusionsIndependently of parental social class, the risk of psychiatric disorder increases with increased downward social mobility and decreases with increased upward mobility.

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“…The available evidence on the impact of intergenerational social mobility on well-being outcomes such as happiness, life satisfaction, and health is very mixed. Whereas some studies find that upward mobility is associated with beneficial outcomes (e.g., Campos-Matos and Kawachi 2015 ; Nikolaev and Burns 2014 ) others suggest that upward mobility has negative implications for the well-being of the socially mobile (e.g., Hadjar and Samuel 2015 ; Stacey 1967 ) arguably because mobile individuals find it hard to adapt to a new class position they have not been socialized into (dissociative hypothesis). Some studies present evidence that appears to support the falling-from-grace hypothesis, showing an association of downward mobility with unfavourable well-being outcomes (e.g., Hemmingsson et al 1999 ; Nikolaev and Burns 2014 ).…”

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Does Intergenerational Educational Mobility Shape the Well-Being of Young Europeans? Evidence from the European Social Survey

Schuck

Steiber

2017

Soc Indic Res

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Using pooled European Social Survey data (Rounds 4–7, 2008–2014), we investigate the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and subjective well-being (SWB) for young Europeans (N = 16,050 individuals aged 25–34 from 18 countries). Previous research has been struggling with inconclusive results due to the methodological challenge of disentangling the independent (i.e., ‘net’) effect of social mobility over and above the effects of social origin and destination. We contribute to this line of research by contrasting mobility effects estimated in a conventional linear regression framework with net mobility effects estimated by (non-linear) diagonal mobility models (DMM). We show how model selection influences estimates of mobility effects and how different specifications lead to radically different findings. Using DMM, we estimate how intergenerational educational mobility affects the SWB of young Europeans, differentiating between downward and upward mobility and different country groups. Our results suggest that status loss/gain across generations affects young adults’ SWB in addition to the level-effect of ending up in a lower/higher status position only in Continental Europe.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1753-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Some Psychological Consequences of Inter-generation Mobility

Cited by 11 publications

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Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility

Habitus Clivé and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility

Social Class, Social Mobility and Risk of Psychiatric Disorder - A Population-Based Longitudinal Study

Does Intergenerational Educational Mobility Shape the Well-Being of Young Europeans? Evidence from the European Social Survey

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