Family income, an individual’s employment status, childhood living conditions, and mobility trajectories are common variables that help measure how an individual’s social mobility affects his or her health.
The social causation hypothesis argues that health is affected by socially determined structural factors. Research on the relationship between an individual’s social class and health has been plentiful in the last few decades, and much scholarly discussion has been devoted to the relative explanatory power of two main hypotheses: social causation and health selection. At the provincial level, the findings from static panel analysis further revealed that there is a positive relationship between the self-perceived class mobility and self-rated health level. At the individual level, we employed ordered logistic regression and found that the perception of experiencing downward mobility was associated with significantly lower self-rated health in both rural and urban areas compared with those who consider themselves to be upwardly mobile or immobile. Analyses at both levels yielded consistent results. Using eight waves of Chinese General Social Survey data spanning the years 2005 to 2015, we conducted an analysis at the micro (individual) level and the macro (provincial) level.
In this paper, we attempt to fill the gap by examining how perception of class mobility is associated with self-rated health. Although numerous studies have shown the importance of an individual’s socioeconomic status on his or her self-rated health status, less well-known is whether self-perceived class mobility, a measure highly correlated with an individual’s de facto social class and past mobility experiences, affects self-rated health.
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