Social assets and mental distress among the homeless: Exploring the roles of social support and other forms of social capital on depression
Social assets and mental distress among the homeless: Exploring the roles of social support and other forms of social capital on depression
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.008
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Fitzpatrick, Kevin
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作者：
Irwin, Jay;LaGory, Mark;Fitzpatrick, Kevin
本文探讨了社会资本在弱势群体中应激源对抑郁影响的中介作用。通过对美国南部一座中型城市155名无家可归者的调查，作者探讨了社会资本与生活质量的相关性。在货币和人力资本极其有限的情况下，这篇论文对社会支持和其他形式的社会资本是否重要提供了关键检验。在这些资源有限的情况下，社会资本是增加了我们对痛苦过程的理解，还是仅仅重申了社会支持和生活质量结果之间业已确立的关系？测量了各种形式的社会资本：宗教社会资本、群体参与、社会信任和桥梁社会资本，以及一种常用的社会支持衡量标准--感知到的强大纽带支持。研究结果表明，即使是资源最贫乏的人群，社会资本也很重要。此外，社会资本变量显著增加了抑郁症状学中解释的差异，而不是传统上由感知到的社会支持解释的差异。(C)2008爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
This paper explores the role of social capital in mediating the effects of stressors on depression among a disadvantaged population. Utilizing a survey of 155 homeless people in a mid-sized southern U.S. city, the authors address the relevance of social capital for quality of life. The paper provides a critical test of whether social support and other forms of social capital matter when monetary and human capital is extremely limited. Under these resource-restricted circumstances does social capital add to our understanding of the distress process or does it merely restate the well established relationship between social support and quality of life outcomes? Various forms of social capital are measured: religious social capital, group participation, social trust, and bridging social capital along with a commonly used measure of social support - perceived strong tie support. Findings suggest that social capital matters for even the most resource poor populations. In addition, social capital variables add significantly to the variance explained in depressive symptomatology over and above that traditionally explained by perceived social support. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.