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Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic

Catherine C. Thomas, Michael C. Schwalbe, Macario Garcia, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Hazel Rose Markus
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (4) 60-83; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.03
Catherine C. Thomas
aAssistant professor of psychology and organizational studies at the University of Michigan, United States
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Michael C. Schwalbe
bPostdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology and the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University, United States
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Macario Garcia
cAssistant professor of anthropology at Kennesaw State University, United States
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Geoffrey L. Cohen
dProfessor of psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University, United States
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Hazel Rose Markus
eThe Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, United States
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    Trends in Well-Being, Dignity, Social Support, and Stress by Education, Race and Ethnicity, and Gender in the Second Half of 2020

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    Note: Gray bands around the lines represent 95 percent confidence intervals. See methodological notes. For education level, college refers to having a college degree and no college refers to not having a college degree, even though the respondent may have taken some college coursework

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    Intersectional Analyses Showing That Trends in Well-Being, Dignity, and Social Support Began to Diverge Among White Respondents with College Degrees, Relative to All Others, in the Second Half of 2020

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    Note: Gray bands around the lines represent 95 percent confidence intervals. See methodological notes.

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    Endorsement of the Importance of Religion in One’s Life Across Race and Ethnicity In the Second Half of 2020

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Catherine C. Thomas, Michael C. Schwalbe, Macario Garcia, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Hazel Rose Markus
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Catherine C. Thomas, Michael C. Schwalbe, Macario Garcia, Geoffrey L. Cohen, Hazel Rose Markus
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    • DATA AND ANALYSIS STRATEGY
    • DIVERGING EXPERIENCES OF THE PANDEMIC IN LATE 2020
    • INEQUALITIES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL LOSSES VERSUS GAINS DURING THE PANDEMIC
    • THOSE WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES: FEELING DISREGARDED, OVERLOOKED AND UNDERVALUED
    • INEQUALITY IN COPING
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