Dispositional gratitude moderates the association between socioeconomic status and interleukin-6
Hartanto, Andree, Lee, Sean T.H., and Yong, Jose C. (2019) Dispositional gratitude moderates the association between socioeconomic status and interleukin-6. Scientific Reports, 9. 802.
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Abstract
Socioeconomic disparities in health are prevalent and growing in importance as a concern among academics, policymakers, and the general public. However, psychological resources that can narrow such disparities have not been well-examined. The current study examined the moderating role of dispositional gratitude in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and inflammation risk as an index of health. Participants consisted of 1,054 midlife adults from the biomarker project of the Midlife in the United States. Inflammation risk was measured by interleukin-6 biomarker and SES was operationalized by education attainment and income. We found that dispositional gratitude significantly moderated the relationships between SES and interleukin-6. Among individuals with low dispositional gratitude, higher SES was significantly associated with lower levels of interleukin-6. However, the association between SES and interleukin-6 was not significant among individuals with high dispositional gratitude. More importantly, the findings remained robust after controlling for demographic characteristics, health status, health behaviours, and personality traits. Our findings suggest that gratitude may serve as an important psychological resource in attenuating health-related risk from socioeconomic stressors.
| Item ID: | 63474 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2019 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Funders: | National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program |
| Projects and Grants: | UL1TR001409, UL1TR001881, 1UL1RR025011 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2020 06:00 |
| FoR Codes: | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5202 Biological psychology > 520206 Psychophysiology @ 50% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5203 Clinical and health psychology > 520304 Health psychology @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9204 Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) > 920408 Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being) @ 100% |
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