Abstract
Status compared to the country/US and status compared to the community have been shown to predict physical and mental health. Additional status measures, status compared to the neighborhood, friends, and family, also could link to health outcomes. For older inactive women, it was found that status compared to family predicts mental health and that status compared to the neighborhood predicts general health. The link between status compared to family and mental health additionally benefited from assessing the effect of comparison orientation. Specifically, it was found that comparison orientation helped predict mental health. Those with low status compared to their family members as well as low comparison orientation had the worst mental health. Overall, these findings are useful as some research has shown that status is malleable and changing status could impact health measures linked to that status.