Researchers followed 2,232 twins born in England and Wales between 1994 and 1995 as part of the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study and found that by age 18, young people's perceptions of their family's social status, more than objective rank, were strongly associated with mental health; despite growing up in the same family, twins who rated their family as having lower social status were more likely than their cotwin to be convicted of a crime, be unemployed, have lower educational attainment, and have poorer mental health.
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Article #18-20845: "Adolescents' perceptions of family social status correlate with health and life chances: A twin difference longitudinal cohort study," by Joshua Rivenbark et al.
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