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Melita, Davide

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    Inequality and Status Anxiety: Bad Allies of Health and Well-Being, but not for Everyone. The Role of Ideologies, Socioeconomic Status, and Economic Threat
    (Springer, 2025-07-05) Melita, Davide; García Sánchez, Efraín; Willis, Guillermo B.; Petkanopoulou, Katerina; García Castro, Juan Diego; Rodríguez Bailón, Rosa
    Economic inequality has been proposed to be linked to lower subjective health and well-being through enhanced status anxiety, but evidence is mixed. We propose that the effects of economic inequality on status anxiety, health and well-being depend on how people perceive it and how threatening it is to them. This paper analyses the effects of perceived economic inequality—in general and in everyday life—on status anxiety, health and well-being, and the conditions under which these effects occur. Moreover, we investigate the role of status anxiety as a mediating mechanism in the effects of economic inequality perceptions on subjective health and well-being. We used nationally representative survey data from four countries and found that those who perceive higher economic inequality in their country and those who experience economic inequality in their daily life experienced higher status anxiety. In turn, the effects of perceiving higher economic inequality on status anxiety were associated with lower life satisfaction and poorer perceived health. However, perceptions of economic inequality were not equally threatening for everyone: Perceiving to live in a highly unequal country was associated with higher status anxiety only among those who endorse system-justifying ideologies. Furthermore, perceiving inequality in everyday life was associated with higher status anxiety only among those who perceived they had insufficient economic resources. Overall, the results support the importance of reducing economic inequality and status anxiety for enhancing health and well-being. We discuss future venues for a more nuanced understanding of the psychological effects of economic inequality.
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    Two Sources of Alienation from Society: The Role of Economic Relative Deprivation, Anti-Mainstream Identities, and Perceived Ingroup Injustice
    (Springer, 2025-08-06) Kossowska, Malgorzata; Dragon, Piotr; Moyano, Manuel; Gołąb, Monika; Andrysiak, Agata; Rodríguez, Reyes; Melita, Davide
    Five cross-sectional pre-registered studies (N = 2925) were conducted in different European countries to examine personal economic relative deprivation and perceived ingroup injustice as predictors of alienation from society (i.e., societal alienation), alongside the role of humiliation. Additionally, we explored whether the adoption of anti-mainstream identities is linked to the collective roots of societal alienation. Across all studies, anti-mainstream identities were operationalized as identities opposing the status quo, endorsing anti-mainstream narratives, or subjectively defined as anti-mainstream. Results consistently revealed that both personal economic relative deprivation and perceived ingroup injustice significantly predicted societal alienation. Furthermore, anti-mainstream identities exhibited a serial indirect effect on societal alienation through heightened perceived ingroup injustice and experienced humiliation in Studies 1a-3a, and through heightened perceived ingroup injustice in Study 3b. This research contributes to our understanding of the psychological mechanisms underpinning societal alienation, a precursor to various societal outcomes, including the rise of authoritarian populism or political polarization.