SES, ACE, and Differentiation
Authored by Jim Edd Jones, Ph. D.
At the 2018 Midwest Symposium on Family Theory and Family Therapy in Willmette, Ilinois this past May, Peter Gianaros from the University of Pittsburgh cogently argued that SES (Socio-Economic Status determined with a composite measure) partially predicts (correlation approximately 0.30) adult serious physiological symptoms, indicators of risk for serious symptoms, and neurobiological indicators of chronic stress/anxiety. Notice that the correlation is modest, with many exceptions to the correlation.
I would expect that level of differentiation of the individual and/or the …
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