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Childhood SES & PS

Tom Geraghty & Jade Garratt · Power, Politics, Diversity & Equity, Individual & Wellbeing

Reports original survey research testing whether childhood socioeconomic status shapes interpersonal and career-based risk-taking at work. Finds evidence for a relationship — those from more precarious backgrounds show greater risk aversion — with implications for equity in voice.

Connected concepts (12)

• Calculus of Voice
• Employment Grade and Coronary Heart Disease in British Civil Servants (paper)
• An Uncertainty Management Perspective on Long-Run Impacts of Adversity: The Influence of Childhood Socioeconomic Status on Risk, Time, and Social Preferences (paper)
• Sociological Safety
• Understanding Social Inequalities in Health (paper)
• Barriers to PS
• Job Security & PS
• Prospect Theory
• SES & Interpersonal Risk
• Imposter Syndrome
• PS for Students
• The Psychological Anchor