Position In Hierarchy Research Articles

Using social rank as the lens to focus on the neural circuitry driving stress coping styles.

Social hierarchy position in humans is negatively correlated with stress-related psychiatric disease risk. Animal models have largely corroborated human studies, showing that social rank can impact stress susceptibility and is considered to be a major risk factor in the development of psychiatric illness. Differences in stress coping style is one of several factors thatmediate this relationship between social rank and stress susceptibility. Coping styles encompass correlated groupings of behaviors associated with differential physiological stress responses. Here, we discuss recent insights from animal models that highlight several neural circuits that can contribute to social rank-associated differences in coping style.

An Integrated Competitiveness Assessment of the Baltic Capitals Based on the Principles of Sustainable Development

The competition between cities involves the search for different ways and means to create, attract, sustain, and use diverse resources, knowledge, ideas, and innovations to support the economic growth of each individual city and, as a result, to strengthen the city’s position in the urban hierarchy both short-term and long-term. However, for each city, urbanisation does not only mean an increase in competitive economic power but also a number of problems such as pollution, poverty, crime and unemployment. In order to address the challenges posed by the urbanisation processes, the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) issued the 1987 Report that emphasised the need for sustainable socio-economic development that would also consider ecological factors. Given this, the article examines the issue of urban competitiveness on the basis of sustainable development principles. After a systematic and comparative analysis of the concepts published in the scientific literature, this article accomplishes the following: It defines the concept of competitiveness in urban areas; it identifies the inclusion aspects of the sustainable development principles into the assessment of urban competitiveness; it presents the research into urban competitiveness assessment models; and it carries out an integrated competitiveness assessment of the Baltic capitals in the period of 2014–2019 based on the principles of sustainable development by applying the integrated competitiveness assessment model that is based on the principles of sustainable development (MDK).

Gender Difference Among Employees Working In Diplomatic Missions


 
 This study was conducted to examine the gender differences among men and women employees working in Diplomatic Missions. The area of the study was different Diplomatic Missions of different countries and their employees both men and women. The random sampling technique was used to select 24 employees working in diplomatic missions as a sample for the study. Out of 24 employees, 12 were women and 12 were men. Data was collected through questionnaire developed by researcher. The reliability of the questionnaire came out to be .759 for number of employment opportunities and 0.892 for position in office hierarchy. Data collected through questionnaire was analyzed through quantitative means and the data collected was presented in percentage and frequencies and to test the hypothesis paired sample Independent t-test was applied. Findings of this study indicated that gender difference exists between men and women employees working in Diplomatic Missions, the ratio of women employees was less on top position in most of the Diplomatic Missions as compared to men. Moreover, men and women not treated equally in number of employment opportunities. Therefore, it is recommended that authorities of Diplomatic Missions should treated equally of both employees in terms of number of employment opportunities, and top positions in diplomatic missions
 
 
 
 

Recipient and donor characteristics govern the hierarchical structure of heterospecific pollen competition networks

Abstract Pollinator sharing can have negative consequences for plant fitness via competition for visits as well as with the arrival of heterospecific pollen. Plant traits and relatedness of donor and recipient species have been suggested to drive the observed variation in plant fitness effects of both processes, but how they shape the structure of interspecific pollen competition networks has been overlooked at the community level. To understand the importance of reproductive traits and relatedness to the impact of heterospecific pollen, we conducted a controlled glasshouse experiment with an artificial co‐flowering community. We performed 2,200 hand pollination crosses by experimentally transferring conspecific pollen alone or with 50% and 100% foreign pollen among 10 species belonging to three different plant families. Relative to conspecific pollen alone, there was a significant reduction in seed set with 50% heterospecific pollen for 67% of the crosses. This effect is driven largely by recipient traits and the interaction between recipient and donor traits under specific circumstances of trait matching. In general, species with shorter styles, smaller stigmas and lower pollen:ovule ratios were more impacted by heterospecific pollen. These traits and their differences among species led to a hierarchical (or transitive) structure of pollen competition with clear winners and losers. However, phylogenetic distance among recipient and donor species did not explain the effects. Synthesis. Our study shows that specific traits and trait combinations between donor and recipient species are important in determining seed production outcomes with heterospecific pollen receipt. Moreover, the differences in traits between species lead to a competitive structure with clear ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ species. The results of this study highlight the importance of specific traits in understanding the position of the competitive hierarchy of the species and the mechanisms underlying heterospecific pollen impacts upon plant reproductive success.

Vilniaus universiteto literatų būrelis sovietmečio literatūros lauke

The circle of literary enthusiasts operating at the Vilnius State V. Kapsukas University during the Soviet era was one of the most prominent gatherings of young writers. The circle was attended by many poets, prosaists, literary critics, and scholars, who took part in it during their study years and later left a distinctive mark in the history of Lithuanian literature. However, the history of the circle’s literary and cultural life has not been described yet, and the texts representing its activities are mostly fragments of memories. Thus, based on the collected and systematised material (memoirs, specially prepared interviews, archived documents, and Soviet press), this article attempts to reconstruct the circle’s life in chronological order and highlight its most important aspects. The article is divided into three parts according to the leadership periods of curators who led the circle the longest: Adolfas Sprindis, Elena Bukelienė, and Marcelijus Martinaitis. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of the literary field, the article raises the following questions: What place did the circle occupy in the institutional network of young writers’ (self-) education during the Soviet era? Was the circle ideologically monitored, tracked, controlled? What functions did the circle’s leaders and chairpersons perform, and what influence did their attitudes have on the circle’s activities? Was the symbolic capital accumulated by attending the circle important to a writer’s career? What influence could the gender of a circle member have had on the evaluation of their work (and position in the circle hierarchy)? Did the experience of participating in the circle regulate its participants’ illusio – belief in the meaningfulness of the literary field itself?

Are better-connected CEOs more socially responsible? Evidence from the U.S. restaurant industry

Extensive research has documented how corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes are determined by CEOs' intrinsic characteristics, while their social network status has been under-researched. Building on impression management theory and resource-based theory, the current study analyzes the association between CSR activities and top management's position in the social hierarchy, i.e., network centrality. The heterogeneous effects across different restaurant and CSR types are examined based on stakeholder theory. Using a panel dataset of publicly traded U.S. restaurant companies and a novel dataset of CEO network centrality, we find that firms with highly connected CEOs are involved in more socially responsible activities. In addition, the marginal effect of network centrality on CSR is stronger for fast-food than for full-service restaurants and more prominent for external than internal stakeholder subcategories. The results advance the determinant analysis of CSR and provide managerial implications for CEO selection and policy suggestions on CSR promotion.

Criminological and legal value of the highest position in the criminal hierarchy as characteristics of the social status of the subject of the crime and the personality of the criminal

The appearance of article 210.1 in the criminal law caused an active discussion in the scientific community and many critical comments. Supporting the idea of the legislator about the need to strengthen the fight against organized crime by criminal legal means, the author notes the failure of the wording used in this norm, the complexity of its practical application, and the violation of the fundamental principles of legality, justice, and guilt. These criticisms are analyzed using the criminal legal approach, which allows projecting the provisions of the criminal law on the criminological plane. Thus, the highest position in the criminal hierarchy, being a special feature of crime, characterizes its social status within the framework of criminal interactions. In addition, the status and role characteristics of the subject have the value of the criminals personal characteristics. Given the criminological doctrine of the criminal, the author formulates the concept of the individual special subject of the crime as a specific sociocriminological personality type characterized, as a rule, a high degree of public danger, which is based on the relationship between the social status and role of the offender with criminal threats, a wide range of victimization, criminal commitment, legal nihilism, and capabilities and skills to counteract the preliminary investigation. In support of this definition, the author analyzes the features of the sociodemographic and value-normative subsystems of the personality of a special subject of crime and argues for the relationship with the personality of the criminal as a private with a general one. Justifying the typologization of the personality of a special subject of crime into socialized and non-socialized types, the author refers to the second person who occupies the highest position in the criminal hierarchy.

Leading Employees Through the Crises: Key Competences of Crises Management in Healthcare Facilities in Coronavirus Pandemic.

PurposeThe fast and shocking onset of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus created the need for a complete crisis management of healthcare facilities to manage the current stage of the crisis. The purpose of our research is to examine the relations between the competences of crisis management in healthcare facilities and the performance of employees, measured during the acute stage of the crisis by their feeling of satisfaction, safety and creation of conditions for work, whereby we assume that these variables are mutually interlinked by the sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of the work teams.Materials and MethodsA questionnaire survey was created and used based on a sample of 216 mid-level managers of health care facilities in Slovakia, which took place during the first month after the outbreak of the crisis (during the month of March/April 2020). The Baron and Kenny mediator model has been used for research purposes and the Freedman–Schatzkin test has been used to test the mediator effect. Regression analysis has been used to verify the hypotheses. The control variables were the size of the healthcare facility based on the number of employees, gender and age of the manager, his position in the management hierarchy and the duration of practice in a management position. The ANOVA analysis of variance was used to analyze multiple dependencies. The level of significance was 5%. The research sample consisted of 216 managers at different types of healthcare facilities.ResultsThe hypothesis for the dependency between the crisis competences of management and performance of teams during the acute stage of the crisis, facilitated by sharing information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of crisis management was confirmed. It is a multilateral incomplete mediation, where almost two thirds of the total effect are facilitated by mediators, of which the sharing of information has the greatest effect (35%).ConclusionBased on our mediation model, healthcare facilities, which strive to implement crisis management during the acute stage of the crisis, should place emphasis especially on reliable background information and the fast sharing of information, supporting the performance of healthcare teams. The strategies for achieving these goals should also include education focused on the development of managerial competences.

Social origins, geographical mobility and occupational attainment in contemporary Italy

This paper studies the effect in the Italian case of geographical mobility on employment and occupational attainment, defined as access to the upper class, avoidance of the working class, and avoidance of agricultural jobs. It observes the distribution of its effect over the life course. Given that migration is a gendered phenomenon, we perform separate analyses by gender. Our data set, moreover, includes residential information at the municipality level, making it possible to specify geographical mobility in different ways, according to the distance, the characteristics of origin, and destination and the frequency of individual movements. Third, it studies whether the effects of geographical mobility change according to social class of origin and geographical area of origin.Our analyses, based on linear probability panel models with fixed effects, show a strong gender divide concerning the probability of employment and avoidance of the working class. A positive effect of geographical mobility on occupational outcomes appears to exist only as regards men, because for women the divergence between movers and stayers appears well before geographical mobility. Finally, the effects of geographical mobility are generally stronger for individuals originating from the middle and lower classes and from rural areas, but they are not so strong as to enable those individuals to substantially change their position in the occupational hierarchy.

Perspective istoriografice privind spațiul sacru al Sibiului în evul mediu

This paper presents an overview of the historiography that describes and investigates the components which compose the sacred spaces of Sibiu in the Middle Ages. It is well known that Sibiu had a preeminent position in the urban hierarchy of medieval Transylvania and of the south-eastern Europe. The city was attested for the first time in 1191 as an ecclesiastical center of the Transylvanian Saxons and was home to numerous places of worship and sacred sites (churches, monasteries, chapels, cemeteries, hospitals etc.). However, with the advent of the Reformation in the 16th century and the noticeable changes that occurred during the industrial age and the communist dictatorship (the 19th and 20th centuries), the medieval sacred building and their neighborhoods have been deeply transformed and medieval ecclesiastical topography became unrecognizable in modern day Sibiu. The recreation of the ecclesiastical topography and even more of the sacred spaces could be recreated through analyses and research of different type of sources from charters and town chronicles of the 16th-18th centuries to the most recent archaeological studies or papers on medieval art, architecture, or historical urban evolution. With this in mind, the study aims to provide references on the topic and establishes the main periods of the historiography and their relevant ideological and theoretical changes during over 400 hundred years of debates or research.

PANDANGAN ANGGOTA KORPS HMI-WATI SURABAYA TENTANG PEREMPUAN BERDAYA

The purpose of this study is to express the views of members of the Kohati Surabaya about empowered women. This research is examined using Nancy Hartsock's Standard theory. The main concept of standpoint theory includes a perspective, situated knowledge and the sexual division of labor. This study uses a qualitative research approach with an exploratory descriptive design. The data collection techniques used were in-depth interviews and documentation. The research informants were determined using purposive sampling technique. The number of informants in this study were three people consisting of the General Secretary of the Surabaya Branch of the Kohati, members of the Department of Education and Training, and Deputy General Secretary for Inter-Institutional Relations. The results showed that women in the view of members of the Kohati Surabaya were influenced by the literacy process and the interpretation of values ​​from a gender perspective, a religious perspective, and a sociocultural perspective. In the view of members of the Surabaya branch of Kohati, empowered women are women who can do the expected aspects such as gender literacy but do not conflict with religion. That empowered women are they have the same opportunity to access productive resources, participate in exploiting their potential, have power / control over their survival, and have the same opportunity to enjoy the results of resource utilization / development. The results of this study confirm the standpoint theory put forward by Nancy Hartsock that views are formed from experiences that are structured by one's position in the social hierarchy, namely the emphasis on women's autonomy in various aspects of life.
 Keywords: Kohati, Woman, Empower

ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНИЕ ЗАНЯТИЯ ВЫСШЕГО ПОЛОЖЕНИЯ В ПРЕСТУПНОЙ ИЕРАРХИИ: КУЛЬТУРОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ

The paper analyzes the features of the criminal subculture that contribute to strengthening the criminal hierarchy and occupying the highest position in it. Regulatory and attributive features of the criminal subculture are highlighted. The corresponding cultural measures aimed at prevention of taking up the highest position in the criminal hierarchy are reduced to overcoming totalitarianism and extremism, the cult of criminal leaders’ personality, restriction on the use of cult tattoos, jargon, and other attributes of the criminal subculture. It is specified that when identifying a person who holds the highest position in the criminal hierarchy, special knowledge is essential not only regarding the mental sphere of the criminal but also about the criminal “world”, which in its whole forms a certain criminal subculture. It is proved that the attributive elements of the criminal subculture perform a number of functions in the criminal world, such as communication, conspiracy identification, and stratification as they allow to establish affiliation of a particular individual to a particular criminal caste. The paper specifies cultural determinants of taking up the highest position in the criminal hierarchy, and on their basis describes criminological approaches to prevent this type of crime. It is emphasized that the subject of cultural expertise in establishing the fact that a person holds a higher position in the criminal hierarchy is the specific status of this individual, the features of its acquisition, and the presence of distinctive attribute elements. The main task of the expert is to determine the conformity of the process of taking up a specific criminal status by a person to existing norms and traditions of the criminal community. The examples from investigations and court practice demonstrate the possibilities of forensic cultural expertise to establish the facts and circumstances that contributed (could have contributed) to the occupation of the highest position in the criminal hierarchy.

КВАЛИФИКАЦИЯ СОУЧАСТИЯ В ЗАНЯТИИ ВЫСШЕГО ПОЛОЖЕНИЯ В ПРЕСТУПНОЙ ИЕРАРХИИ

The author considered the classification of accomplices' acts in obtaining by a person of the highest position within the criminal hierarchy (the thief-in-law status). The research took into account the causal connections between the elements of the co-enforcement system regarding such crime. The paper divided the objective aspect of obtaining the highest position within the criminal hierarchy (the status of a thief in the law) into stages depending on the content of the crime co-perpetrators actions. The author considered the situations with a voluntary refusal of a person from the obtained highest position within the criminal hierarchy (the status of a thief in the law) as well as the conditions for co-executors active repentance. The paper defines an applicant to obtain the highest position within the criminal hierarchy (the thief-in-law status) as a performer. The study established that the status leaders become the co-perpetrators of a crime participating in the decision to grant a person the highest position in the criminal hierarchy (the status of a thief in the law). The co-perpetrators of this crime also include persons who consciously and purposefully disseminate the information about the assignment of a person to the highest position in the criminal hierarchy (the status of a thief in the law). Personal voluntary renunciation of the acquired highest position in the criminal hierarchy (the status of a thief in the law) should be made openly, for example, using the status in social networks or a chat. Active repentance of the accomplices of the crime under consideration provides for the voluntary refusal of a person from the acquired highest position in the criminal hierarchy (the status of a thief in law).

СУДЕБНАЯ КРИМИНОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ЭКСПЕРТИЗА ЗАНЯТИЯ ВЫСШЕГО ПОЛОЖЕНИЯ В ПРЕСТУПНОЙ ИЕРАРХИИ

The paper deals with the issue of referring a person to the criminal hierarchy status leaders. While studying criminal subculture, the author specified criminological signs of the criminal ranking highest position, identified functional, status, and attributive signs of taking the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. The thief-in-law, the overseer, and the loyalist represent the status leaders of the criminal ranking. The author developed a general methodology for the new forensic and criminological examination of taking the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. Actual data concerning the behavior of a person inspected containing in the case materials is the object of the examination. The subject of this examination is formulated as a complex of functional, status, and attributive features of any criminal hierarchy leader. The task of the proposed expertise is to clear up if a person has the status of the leader of the criminal hierarchy or not. The paper describes the specifics of the stages of this examination. At the preparatory stage, an expert checks the reliability of the objects presented, identifying the signs of their falsification, destruction, and modification. The author recommends carrying out mandatory verification and supporting the expert initiative. At the stage of independent research, an expert establishes key behavioral characteristics of a person inspected. Provided that they are sufficient, the next stage implies comparing them with a set of signs and features which are typical for people taking the highest positions in the criminal hierarchy. The final stage examination contains the evaluation of coincidences and formulation of conclusions. The author gives the recommendations on the expertise relating the conditional forms of conclusions based on the results of the examination of taking the highest position in the criminal hierarchy; proposes validating general and specific methods of expertise of taking the hierarchy highest position in terms of scientific research.

Занятие высшего положения в преступной иерархии: особенности уголовно-правовой квалификации

We consider the features of criminal law qualification of occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. We analyze the provisions of Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the points of view of legal scholars about the specifics of establishing the highest criminal status of a person. As a result of this study, it is concluded that the establishment of the place of a specific subject in the criminal hierarchy is possible in those cases when the person confirms his criminal status or the persons involved as witnesses confirm that this person has a higher position in the criminal hierarchy. We believe that when determining the subject of a given crime, it is necessary to establish such signs as the subject’s opinion regarding this status; the opinion of the persons who were part of this criminal organization regarding the position of this person in it; his possession of “powers” of an administrative nature in relation to members of this criminal group or other persons adhering to “thieves’ concepts”; the opinion of other persons with the highest position in the criminal hierarchy regarding the criminal status of the subject. At the same time, it should be recognized that there is an urgent need for a judicial interpretation of the issues of quali-fication of a crime provided for in Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which necessitates the preparation of an appropriate resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Education in the Structure of Status Inconsistency of the Modern Russian Society

The results of an intercountry project “European Social Research” are analyzed. The economic, power, qualification and related to social and professional hierarchies are considered among the basic status dimensions. The indicators of the individual's position in the qualification hierarchy are the level of education and the number of years spent on training. Status inconsistency is understood as a discrepancy between a high position of an individual in one hierarchy and a relatively low position in another. There is a certain lack of information characterizing the place of education in the structure of the status inconsistency of modern Russian society. Particular attention is paid to the consideration of non-compliance between the professional position in the labor market and the educational status of Russians. It was revealed that in Russia, in comparison with Europe, the population of the considered social and professional groups by respondents with a high level of education is higher. It is concluded that a high position in the educational hierarchy is to a significant extent a condition for getting into the professional strata of managers and professionals, however, having a high level of education does not guarantee employment in highly qualified work. It is noted that in Russian society there is a widespread inconsistency in the positions of individuals in the qualification and economic, power, socio-professional hierarchies. It is stated that in comparison with most European countries in Russia, an inconsistency of educational and economic status is more pronounced. The author made a conclusion of the connection of status inconsistency with socio-economic transformations of Russian society, permanent changes in the labor market and the national educational system. The author believes that the discrepancy between the educational status of Russians and income, power, and membership in a social and professional group indicates the “blurring” of social segments of modern Russian society, and allows one to characterize its social structure as relatively unstable.

Национальная безопасность и развитие в стратегических приоритетах Республики Корея и Японии

The article explores new policies related to security and economic development as represented by the cases of the Republic of Korea and Japan. It assesses combination of old and new internal and external challenges to security, economic development, and social stability, noting the increased interplay of factors affecting national security and innovative growth. The latter is increasingly viewed as an indispensable condition for military, political and social security of a nation, for effectively responding to external pressures as well as to ecological, epidemiological and technology-related risks. Rising technological capabilities in the two Northeast Asian nations contribute to their international ambitions. The authors analyze the tendency in the Republic of Korea to pursue a more independent foreign policy as a “middle power”, and Japan’s growing international and military profile in the Asia Pacific. The risks and possible future consequences of this trend are explored and assessed. The authors identify the priorities of the Republic of Korea’s development strategy within the framework of the “Korean New Deal”, and a new vision of the future of Japan as presented in the strategic documents of its government. They note greater aspirations of the two nations to increase their competitive edge in the regional and global race to reach and retain leading positions in the international hierarchy of economic and political power. New tools to ensure this edge are being tested by South Korean and Japanese governments, as old instruments of industrial policy seem to be losing strength and produce little effect. Acknowledgements. This paper was written as part of the research project “Post-Crisis World Order: Challenges and Technologies, Competition and Cooperation” under the grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for conducting major scientific projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (Agreement No. 075-15-2020-783).

Three generations of Ukrainians in stratification hierarchies: a comparative perspective

The article analyzes the differences in positions in the stratification hierarchies of different generations. Based on the data of the sociological survey “Ukrainian Society”, conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine in 1995–1997 and 2018–2020, four subsamples which represented three age cohorts (grandparents, parents (measured at two points) and children) were formed. Comparison of their characteristics made by combining three types of research designs (cross-sectional, cohort, and trend). The measurement of positions in the space of inequalities carried out with three groups of indicators (objective parameters, subjective perception and recognition of the legitimacy of stratification orders). On their basis, three typologies were constructed (objective, integral and economic position), consisting of an agreed high, medium and low status, as well as an inconsistent status. The study indicated many positive generational changes in the distributions of individuals along the main stratification hierarchies. The most dramatic changes fixed in the people’s perception of their social position and recognition of the legitimacy of the inequality system. There weren’t generational differences in status crystallization, although the links between status characteristics differed somewhat. In modern Ukrainian society, a large proportion of people belonged to the higher levels of hierarchies and smaller ones at the lower.

Vad hände sen? Våld, trygghet och tankar om en annan framtid efter oroligheterna i Husby 2013

[What happened then? Violence, security and thoughts of a different future after the riots in Husby in 2013] What happened after the riots in Husby, a district in Stockholm, in 2013? Based on Stuart Hall’s concept of conjuncture and interviews with residents of Husby, Marcus Lauri and Paulina de los Reyes analyzes the aftermath of the unrest and the possible paths of development that could have led to a different situation than the one we see today. Their analysis shows that the unrest created a discursive opening where authorities’, the police’s and politicians’ understandings of violence and security were temporarily challenged, but this opening was shut down when the residents’ voices were excluded from the public debate. Today, the dominant discourse on marginalized areas is again based on the perspective of the establishment, although it is still challenged by grassroots activists who claim that the existence of violence and access to physical and economic security depends on where one lives and one’s position in the social hierarchy. Lauri and de los Reyes therefore conclude that the discourse is still open and that future social crises – conjunctures – will probably provide space for new discourses that may lead to other horizons of possibility. Publication history: Published original. (Published 16 June 2021) Citation: Lauri, Marcus & Paulina de los Reyes (2021) “Vad hände sen? Våld, trygghet och tankar om en annan framtid efter oroligheterna i Husby 2013”, in Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys , issue 13, pp. 51–70. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.13.2

Subjective social status and health-related quality of life-A cross-lagged panel analysis.

Objective: Subjective social status (SSS) refers to individuals' perceived position in the social hierarchy. Prior research suggests that SSS relates to health above and beyond objective socioeconomic status (OSS) such as income, occupation, or education. Most findings in this field, however, stem from cross-sectional studies or longitudinal studies with one-time measurements of SSS only. The aim of this study was to examine reciprocal longitudinal associations of both national SSS (i.e., comparison with people in one's country) and local SSS (i.e., comparison with people in one's social environment) with health-related quality of life. Method: A two-wave cross-lagged panel design with a 2-year follow-up was used to analyze data for national SSS, local SSS, physical and mental health-related quality of life (PHQL and MHQL), as well as OSS from initially 2,156 individuals who participated in the German Socioeconomic Panel Study-Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). Results: Local and national SSS at baseline predicted PHQL at follow up and partially mediated associations between OSS and PHQL. Local SSS (but not national SSS) also predicted MHQL at follow-up but this association was only marginally significant after inclusion of OSS in the model. Regarding a reverse health-to-SSS pathway, PHQL (but not MHQL) at baseline predicted local and national SSS at follow-up and these associations were partially mediated by income. Conclusion: This study extends cross-sectional observations by confirming that both local and national SSS have unique longitudinal associations with health and provides novel insights into longitudinal pathways linking SSS, OSS, and health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).