Income inequality, status consumption and status anxiety: An exploratory review of implications for sustainability and directions for future research

Income inequality has been associated with higher levels of status consumption with well-established harmful effects on health, wellbeing and economic stability. Research has suggested that status anxiety may be the mechanism that connects income inequality with status consumption, but the literatur...

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Main Authors: Katie Pybus, Madeleine Power, Kate E. Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:Social Sciences and Humanities Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291122001073