Stefanie Mollborn, Jennifer A Pace, Bethany Rigles
{"title":"Children's Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities.","authors":"Stefanie Mollborn, Jennifer A Pace, Bethany Rigles","doi":"10.1177/00221465241255946","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241255946","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health lifestyles are a well-theorized mechanism perpetuating health and social inequalities, but empirical research has not yet documented crucial aspects: (1) health lifestyles' collective nature or content beyond behaviors and (2) how people choose among available lifestyles in their social contexts. We conducted interviews, observations, and focus groups with families in two middle- to upper-middle-class communities. Contemporary class-privileged parenting involves constructing an individualized health lifestyle reliant on an expansive understanding of health and composed of parents' identities and narratives, children's health behaviors and identity expressions, and community norms. Children's predominant health lifestyles in our sample vary by focus on parent versus child identity expression and on future achievements versus present well-being. Parents expect health lifestyles to influence future socioeconomic attainment and health inequalities. Understanding how health lifestyles encompass more than behaviors and are locally contextualized and how people choose them within structural constraints can inform research and policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"66 1","pages":"2-17"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11869505/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex.","authors":"Emma Zang, Melissa Tian","doi":"10.1177/00221465231223944","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465231223944","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates how upward mobility context affects health during transition to adulthood and its variations by race and sex. Using county-level upward mobility measures and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we apply propensity score weighting techniques to examine these relationships. Results show that low upward mobility context increases the likelihood of poor self-rated health, obesity, and cigarette use but decreases alcohol consumption probability. Conversely, high upward mobility context raises the likelihood of distress, chronic conditions, and alcohol use but reduces cigarette use likelihood. In low-opportunity settings, Black individuals have lower risks of chronic conditions and cigarette use than White men. In high-opportunity settings, Black women are more likely to experience depression and chronic conditions, and Black men are likelier to smoke than White men. Our findings emphasize the complex link between upward mobility context and health for different racial and sex groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"18-37"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11930307/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139571932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants.","authors":"Thoa V Khuu, Jennifer Van Hook, Kendal L Lowrey","doi":"10.1177/00221465241310347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241310347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent decades, naturalization rates among U.S. immigrants have surged as many seek citizenship to regain lost rights and protections. However, the impact of naturalization on immigrants' life outcomes, such as health, remains underexplored in academic research. Challenges arising from selection processes complicate the interpretation of any observed health disparities between naturalized citizens and noncitizens. To address this gap, we link restricted-use data from the 2000 U.S. census to individual Social Security records on citizenship change and death, enabling a 20-year observation of naturalization and mortality. Results from discrete-time hazard analysis of mortality risk reveals a significant protective health effect from naturalization, which increases in magnitude among long-term naturalized citizens. The effect is particularly strong across older ages and among groups with lower education, refugee entry status, Hispanic origin, and health limitations. These findings suggest that naturalization represents an important but stratifying source of institutional support for socially vulnerable immigrants.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465241310347"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internalized Sexism and Well-Being in the United States.","authors":"Matthew A Andersson, Anastasia N McSwain","doi":"10.1177/00221465241305586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241305586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although structural sexism in state-level institutions is harmful to women's and men's health, less is known about how micro-level structural sexism relates to well-being. Using the 2017 and 2021 Gallup Values and Beliefs of the American Public surveys (N = 1,501 in 2017; N = 1,248 in 2021), we investigate diverse approaches to internalized sexism. Although we find no significant associations with self-rated health, gender traditionalism is linked to greater depressive and anxiety symptoms for women and men, providing the first population evidence for its universal harm in the United States. Although benevolent sexism shows no associations with mental well-being, hostile sexism is linked to greater symptoms among men. A diminished sense of mastery consistently accounts for these relationships, showing promise as a potential mechanism. These findings are suppressed by political conservatism and religious involvement, both of which lead to reporting greater-rather than diminished-well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465241305586"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143069580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Authority and (Non)Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Kate Hawks","doi":"10.1177/00221465241312696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241312696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the success of public health authorities' strategies to curb the spread of the virus hinged on individuals' voluntary compliance with their directives. This study considers how two components of the cultural authority of public health influenced compliance with health guidelines during the pandemic: (1) individuals' views of public health officials as legitimate and (2) the shared value of health. I also examine the influence of other basic values, alongside health, on pandemic behavior. Data come from an original survey of 1,356 U.S. adults collected online in spring 2022. Findings reveal the pivotal role of perceived legitimacy of public health authorities in motivating compliance, even when considering perceived threat of the virus, political orientation, and other contextual factors. Results provide insight into why people complied with health guidelines by indicating how variation in individuals' value priorities influenced behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465241312696"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andréa Becker, Celina Doria, Leah R. Koenig, Jennifer Ko, Ushma Upadhyay
{"title":"“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion","authors":"Andréa Becker, Celina Doria, Leah R. Koenig, Jennifer Ko, Ushma Upadhyay","doi":"10.1177/00221465241303873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241303873","url":null,"abstract":"For decades, sociological research has examined the role of stigma in contributing to health disparities, yet such research seldom grapples with the interplay between individuals and structures. There is a particular paucity of research on abortion that concurrently examines individual experiences with stigma and structural barriers. In this article, we use telehealth abortion as a case, which now accounts for one in five abortions in the United States. We conducted 30 interviews and approach the data using a structural stigma framework in tandem with conceptualizations of felt, internalized, and enacted stigma. Findings advance a sociological theory of structural abortion stigma: a combination of structural barriers, internalized beliefs, and interpersonal shame. Telehealth reduces structural barriers to abortion and mitigates internal and interpersonal experiences of stigma. The latter is achieved by the ability to avoid the traditional abortion clinic, which many interviewees view as the site where stigma is produced and experienced.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142937010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Into the Unknown: Anticipatory Stressors in the Stress Process Paradigm","authors":"Matthew K. Grace","doi":"10.1177/00221465241302507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241302507","url":null,"abstract":"A growing literature examines anticipatory stressors or the worries people have about the future that may or may never occur. Drawing on data collected as part of two national surveys (N = 3,834), this study formalizes a scale of anticipatory stress tapping into future-oriented worries about economic security, traumatic events, and discrimination. Results indicate that both personal and vicarious stress exposure predict greater anticipatory stress and, replicating past work, that such worries are concentrated among historically marginalized groups. Anticipatory stressors explain an appreciable amount of the variation in distress, and suggestive of their insidious effects, these associations persist after adjustment for other sources of adversity. Whereas mastery and self-esteem buffer mental health, the protective effects of social support are compromised at higher levels of anticipatory stress. Findings signal the importance of incorporating anticipatory stressors into the stress process to more sufficiently capture how the social world imprints on mental health.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142908447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Unequal Loop: Socioeconomic Status and the Dynamic Bidirectional Relationship between Physical and Mental Health","authors":"Yajie Xiong, Yaqiang Qi","doi":"10.1177/00221465241300303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241300303","url":null,"abstract":"This study draws on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (2008–2020) to investigate the dynamic bidirectional relationship between physical and mental health, focusing on socioeconomic disparities. Dynamic panel models reveal significant bidirectional associations between measures of physical and mental health for both positive and negative health indicators, but the magnitude varies by education and wealth. Specifically, the interconnection between indicators of negative physical and mental health (i.e., functional limitations and depression symptoms) is stronger among the socioeconomically disadvantaged, whereas the relationship between indicators of positive physical and mental health (i.e., physical activity and positive affect) is stronger at higher levels of wealth (although not education). By disentangling the bidirectional association between physical and mental health, these results imply an important process of the reproduction and perpetuation of health inequalities.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142901605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to \"No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks: A Quasi-Experiment Providing Evidence for the Fundamental Cause Theory\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00221465241306670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241306670","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"221465241306670"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Acknowledgment of Reviewers.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00221465241292112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465241292112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"65 4","pages":"635-637"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142808062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}