APS
2023 APS Annual Convention · 2023
Conceptions of Social and Individual Mobility Mediate Young Adults' Predictions of National Wealth Distribution
- Ameya Sriram
University of Maryland, College Park - Arvid Samuelson
University of California, Santa Cruz - Amanda Burkholder
University of Maryland, College Park - Audun Dahl
University of California, Santa Cruz - Melanie Killen
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Conceptions of individual and social mobility were hypothesized to be related to predictions of national wealth distribution. Surveying a sample of young adults, the relationships between individual and societal social mobility were significantly related to participants' explanations for wealth attainment as stemming from individual (not structural) factors.
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