Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour

We examined the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and endorsement of honour. We studied the SES‐honour link in 5 studies (N = 13,635) with participants recruited in different world regions (the Mediterranean and MENA, East Asian, South‐East Asian, and Anglo‐Western regions) using measures that tap into various different facets of honour. Findings from these studies revealed that individuals who subjectively perceived themselves as belonging to a higher (vs. lower) SES endorsed various facets of honour more strongly (i.e. defence of family honour values and concerns, self‐promotion and retaliation values, masculine honour beliefs, emphasis on personal and family social image, the so‐called street code). We discuss implications of these findings for the cultural dynamics linked to SES.