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The Sense of Control as a Moderator of Social Class Differences in Health and Well-Being

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, March 1998
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
6 policy sources

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724 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Sense of Control as a Moderator of Social Class Differences in Health and Well-Being
Published in
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, March 1998
DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.74.3.763
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 724 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 9 1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 702 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 159 22%
Student > Master 84 12%
Student > Bachelor 70 10%
Researcher 67 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 61 8%
Other 107 15%
Unknown 176 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 271 37%
Social Sciences 86 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 54 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 26 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 2%
Other 69 10%
Unknown 207 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 February 2026.
All research outputs
#1,850,692
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#1,707
of 8,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#931
of 46,137 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#3
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,033 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.