. 2018 Sep 5;13(9):e0202489. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202489

Table 1. Material class and subjective social status regressed on health biomarkers with control variables.

N: 3588	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Constant	1.063 (0.17)^***	1.248 (0.20)^***	0.937 (0.18)^***	1.383 (0.23)^***	0.932 (0.18)^***
Material Class
Higher Class (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Middle Class	0.028 (0.05)	0.000 (0.05)	0.003 (0.05)	-0.300 (0.20)
Working Class	0.028 (0.05)	-0.000 (0.05)	0.008 (0.05)	-0.067 (0.19)
Gender
Male (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Female	-0.047 (0.04)	-0.025 (0.04)	-0.026 (0.04)	-0.029 (0.04)	-0.032 (0.04)
Education
Lower education (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Post-secondary education	-0.182 (0.05)^**	-0.128 (0.06)^*	-0.140 (0.06)^*	-0.124 (0.06)^*	-0.137 (0.06)^*
Marital Status
Married (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Not-Married	0.040 (0.04)	0.037 (0.04)	0.043 (0.04)	0.037 (0.04)	0.042 (0.04)
Age		0.006 (0.00)	0.006 (0.00)^*	0.006 (0.00)^*	0.006 (0.00)^*
Decreasing Subjective Status		0.004 (0.00)^***
Subjective Status Groups
Higher status (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Middle status			0.036 (0.05)
Working status			0.138 (0.05)^**
Material Class X Subjective Status
Higher X Subj status (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Middle X Subj Status				0.005 (0.00)
Working X Subj Status				0.001 (0.00)
Class-Status Combinations
Higher class-Higher status (Ref.)	-	-	-	-	-
Higher class-Middle status					0.029 (0.08)
Higher class-Lower status					0.258 (0.08)^**
Middle class-Higher status					0.103 (0.07)
Middle class-Middle status					0.092 (0.08)
Middle class-Lower status					0.070 (0.07)
Working class-Higher status					-0.036 (0.09)
Working class-Middle status					0.061 (0.08)
Working class-Lower status					0.205 (0.07)^**
R²	0.57%	0.95%	0.88%	1.02%	1.10%
Karlson, Holm, Breen-Mediation Analysis
% of Material social class mediated by Subjective social status
Higher Class		-	-
Middle Class		97.93%^**	88.89%^*
Working Class		100.64%^***	79.27%^**

Source: Wave 2 and 6 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

° p > 0.10.

* p < 0.05.

** p < 0.01.

*** p < 0.001.