Reliability of the MacArthur scale of subjective social status - Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)
Open Access
- 20 December 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 12 (1), 1096
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-1096
Abstract
The MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status intend to measure the subjective social status using a numbered stepladder image. This study investigated the reliability of the MacArthur scale in a subsample of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil).Keywords
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