Drawing on a recent perspective that inconsistent class identities can negatively impact psychological outcomes, the current research explored if the relative benefit of higher subjective social class for life satisfaction would differ depending on whether it is consistent with one’s objective social class. In Study 1, across two independent samples from Singapore (n = 1,045) and the United States (n = 492), higher subjective social class predicted higher life satisfaction more strongly among those high in objective social class, but less strongly among those low in objective social class. In Study 2, these patterns were replicated in another large U.S. sample (n = 1,030), and appeared to be driven by lower status-based identity uncertainty linked to higher subjective social class perceptions among high objective social class participants. The role of class-identity perceptions in explaining social class disparities in subjective well-being is discussed.

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主观社会阶层和生活满意度：阶层一致性和身份不确定性的作用

借鉴最近的观点，即不一致的阶级身份会对心理结果产生负面影响，目前的研究探讨了较高的主观社会阶级对生活满意度的相对益处是否会因它是否与一个人的客观社会阶级一致而有所不同。在研究 1 中，来自新加坡 ( n  = 1,045) 和美国 ( n  = 492) 的两个独立样本中，较高的主观社会阶层对较高的生活满意度的预测在客观社会阶层较高的人群中更为强烈，但在较低的主观社会阶层中则不太强烈。客观的社会阶层。在研究 2 中，这些模式在另一个大型美国样本（n = 1,030），并且似乎是由较低的基于身份的身份不确定性与高度客观的社会阶层参与者之间较高的主观社会阶层感知相关联的。讨论了阶级认同感在解释主观幸福感的社会阶级差异中的作用。