Does Village Inequality in modern Income Harm the Psyche ? Anger, Fear, Sadness, and Alcohol Consumption in a Pre Industrial Society  

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Godoy, Ricardo A. ; Reyes-Garcia, Victoria ; McDade, Thomas W. ; Huanca, Tomas ; Leonard, William R. ; Tanner, Susan ; Vadez, Vincent

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 63 no. 2 (Jul. 2006), page 359-372.
Topik: social capital; bolivia; tsimane; health; income inequality; emotions; social capital

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Researchers have found a positive association between income inequality and poor individual heath. To explain the link, researchers have hypothesized that income inequality erodes community social capital, which unleashes negative emotions, stress, and stress behaviours that hurt health. Few studies have tested the hypothesized path. Here we estimate the association between : a. vilalge income inequality and social capital, and b. three distinct negative emotions (anger, fear, sadness) and one stress behavior (alcohol consumption). We use four quarters of panel data (2002 - 2003) from 655 adults in 13 vilages of a foraging farming society in the bolivian amazon (tsimane'). We found that : 1. village income inequality was associated with more negative emotions but with less alcohol consumption, 2. social capital always bore a negative association with outcomes and 3. results held up after introducing many changes to the main model. We conclude that village income inequality probably affects negative emotions and stress behaviors through other paths besides social capital because we conditioned for social capital. One such path is an innate dislike of inequality, which might have pre human origins. Our prior research with the tsimane' suggests that village inequality bore an insignificant association with individual health. Therefore, village income inequality probably affects negative emotions and stress behaviors before undermining health.

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