身体高度决定收入欲望——认知能力与心理健康的中介作用

Physical Height Determines Aspiration for Income: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Ability and Mental Health

身高是早期家庭社会经济状况的有效代理指标,它影响着社会分层与阶层流动。研究使用CGSS2015的数据,分析了身高对人们收入欲望的影响。线性回归分析表明:身高显著预测人们的收入欲望,认知能力和心理健康是身高与收入欲望之间的中介变量。研究认为,在社会流动中,身高(先赋因素)劣势导致其认知能力与心理健康的劣势,而这种劣势又带来了经济欲望的不足,可能会影响人们通过自致行为而实现阶层攀升的努力。

Height is an effective proxy index for the social and economic status of early families,and it affects social stratification and mobility.CGSS2015 data was used to analyze the effect of height on people’s income aspiration.Linear regression analysis shows that:height significantly predicts people’s income aspiration;cognitive ability and income aspiration are two mediating variables between height and income aspiration.The results show that in social mobility,the inferiority of height(pre-endowed factor)leads to the inferiority of cognitive ability and mental health,which in turn leads to the insufficiency of economic aspiration,which may affect people’s efforts to achieve class climbing through self-induced behavior.