title: Subjective social status and health behaviors among African Americans.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine associations of the US and community subjective social status (SSS) ladders with smoking status, at-risk drinking, fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, and body mass index among 1467 church-going African American adults from a larger cohort study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Regression analyses, adjusted for sociodemographics, examined associations between SSS ladders and health behaviors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The SSS-US ladder was significantly associated with fruit and vegetable consumption (p = .007) and physical activity (p = .005). The SSS-community  ladder was not significantly associated with any health behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among this sample of African Americans, the SSS-US ladder is more predictive of some health behaviors than is the SSS-community ladder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Disparities Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. Lrreitze@mdanderson.org
authors.forename: Lorraine R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Reitzel
authors.forename: Nga
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Larkin L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Strong
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Wetter
authors.forename: Lorna H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: McNeill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012923:Social Class; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires