Social class and self-esteem : psychological centrality, compensation, and the relative effects of work and home

In this study we examine how the processes of psychological centrality and compensation affect the relationships between social class (as well as other structural and contextual variables) and self-esteem. We propose that the muted relationship generally found in research on social class and self-esteem is due largely to the uncontrolled influence of the self-esteem motive

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