Moving up matters: Socioeconomic mobility prospectively predicts better physical health.

Jenny M CundiffJennifer Morozink BoylanDustin A PardiniKaren A Matthews

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2017)

Initial childhood SES did not predict physical health, whereas relative improvements in SES over a 10-year period did. If the families of Black and White boys were upwardly mobile, it appeared to protect them from developing physical disease, and upward mobility was additively protective across developmental periods examined here. (PsycINFO Database Record

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