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Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.

How do you feel about yourself and your place in society? The answer could affect not...

How do you feel about yourself and your place in society? The answer could affect not...

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How U.S. Hispanic/Latino adults perceive their own social standing, relative to the general population may be an important factor contributing to their overall cardiovascular health, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access journal of the American Heart Association.

Writing in the journal Psychological Bulletin, researchers describe an association between people’s subjective socioeconomic status — how they perceive their own income, education, and occupation standing in comparison with others — and happiness. That association, they say, is significantly larger than the connection between people’s objective socioeconomic status — as measured by income and educational attainment — and their level of happiness. “There is a conventional ...

Researchers say new findings contradict decades of research showing a weak relationship between money and happiness, particularly in wealthy society.