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Identifier	Thesis 1860
Author	Wujcik, Susan
Title	Relationship of Social Capital to Health Status
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2006
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The present research examined the relationship of social capital to reported health status using data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey (SCBS). Two hypotheses were examined: (1) higher scores on the 11 dimensions of social capital assessed in the SCBS will be associated with better reported health status, and (2) the relationship between social capital and health status will be stronger for women than for men and for older rather than younger respondents. All data used in this study was taken from the phone-based SCBS conducted in 2000. The survey included data from a total of 26,200 individuals from 41 communities/regions representing 29 states within the U.S. The SCBS contains approximately 70 questions that examine eleven key social capital dimensions: social trust, inter-racial trust, conventional politics participation, protest politics participation, civic leadership, associational involvement, informal socializing, diversity of friendships, giving and volunteering, faith based engagement, and equality of civic engagement across the community. To assess the first hypothesis, regression techniques were first used to examine the relationship between various demographic and ecological characteristics of the different regions and reported health. We then correlated the 11 social capital dimensions with the residual health scores for each community after the effects of the demographic and ecological variables on health were removed. Only two of the 11 types of social capital were significantly correlated with reported health: social trust and inter-racial trust. The second hypothesis was evaluated using three-way ANOVAs that examined the effects of gender, age and level of trust (social or inter-racial) on reported health. The hypothesis predicts a three-way interaction, i.e., that the effect of the trust variables on health will be strongest for older females. Both ANOVAs found significant three-way interactions, but subsequent examination of the interaction indicated that older women did not show the greatest impact of higher social capital on health as predicted. A discussion of these findings and implications for future research are included.
Subject	Social capital (Sociology) Health attitudes Health behavior -- Social aspects
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Goldstein, Marc B.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734055
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