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Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for demographic, psychological and socioeconomic variables, and their univariate correlations with subjective social status, personal SES and community SES (N = 100)

Variable	Descriptive statistics		Univariate correlations with subjective social status and conventional SES indicators
			Subjective status^a	Personal SES^b	Community SES^c
	M	s.d.	r	r	r
	Demographic variables
Age (years)	44.6	6.8	0.12	0.17^†	0.11
Intellectual ability (WASI)	116.5	10.3	0.04	0.24^*	0.10
	Psychological variables
Depressive symptoms (CES-D)^d	5.2	5.9	–0.17^†	–0.22^*	–0.14
Recent life stress (PSS)	11.6	5.9	–0.33^**	–0.24^*	–0.24^*
Pessimism (LOT-R)	9.1	2.7	0.18^†	0.16	0.09
Negative affect (PANAS)^d	13.3	4.3	–0.27^**	–0.14	–0.03
Cynicism (CMHS)	5.6	3.2	–0.05	–0.18^†	–0.16
Hostile affect (CMHS)	1.9	1.2	–0.19^†	–0.15^*	–0.16
Aggressive responding (CMHS)	3.2	1.7	0.03	–0.21^*	–0.16
Hostile attributions (CMHS)	3.1	2.4	–0.19^†	–0.20^*	–0.16
Social avoidance (CMHS)	1.6	1.2	–0.15	0.02	0.05
	Socioeconomic variables
Educational attainment^e	5.4	1.7	0.27^**	0.68^**	0.22^*
Family income^f	6.0	1.8	0.35^**	0.68^**	0.30^**
Personal SES^b	0.01	0.7	0.46^**		0.38^**
Community SES^c	0.07	1.0	0.31^**
	Subjective social status
Subjective status	6.6	1.3

WASI = Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence; CES-D = Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; PSS = Perceived Stress Scale; LOT-R = Revised Life Orientation Test; PANAS = Positive and Negative Affect Schedule; CMHS = Cook–Medley Scale; SES = socioeconomic status.

^aDerived from social ladder ranking.

^bComputed as the standardized average of educational attainment and family income.

^cComputed as the standardized average of census-tract variables.

^dVariable was natural-log transformed prior to statistical analysis.

^eCoded according to six categories (see Method).

^fCoded according to eight categories (see Method).

^†P < 0.10. *P < 0.05. **P < 0.01.