#Socioeconomicstatus

A newly published study in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications has unveiled a significant connection between an individual’s childhood socio-economic status and their likelihood of seeking out wellness tourism as adults. The research deploys advanced analytical methods to deepen our understanding of this emerging trend, offering insights that may inform how Thailand’s tourism industry strategises for a post-pandemic future and addresses wider issues of health equity.

The report, titled “Relationship between childhood socio-economic status and wellness tourism intention: a combined PLS-SEM and NCA methods” (nature.com), highlights the psychological and social factors that drive people to invest in travel experiences tailored for health and wellbeing. By leveraging both Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA), the study provides a robust framework to map out how early life experiences impact adult travel preferences.

New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has found that people are more likely to trust individuals who grew up in lower-income households, as compared to those who had privileged backgrounds. This finding, based on a series of experiments with nearly 2,000 participants, sheds light on the deep-rooted perceptions linking childhood hardship with morality and trustworthiness—a topic that resonates on both a global and a Thai societal level (Neuroscience News).