Wellbeing and Social Network Characteristics in Rural Communities: Findings from a Cohort in Social Housing in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Wellbeing and Social Network Characteristics in Rural Communities: Findings from a Cohort in Social Housing in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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10.1007/s42413-022-00167-5
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2022
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Morrissey, Karyn
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Long, Emily;Stevens, Sebastian;Topciu, Raluca;Williams, Andrew James;Taylor, Timothy James;Morrissey, Karyn
生活在资源贫乏和农村地区的人的心理健康是公共卫生的优先事项。尽管有证据表明社交网络和心理健康之间存在联系，但在农村和资源贫乏的环境中，人们对这种关系知之甚少。目前的研究使用新的社会网络方法来调查在何种程度上社会网络的大小和组成是相关的心理健康在英格兰农村的社会住房社区。数据来自88个住在康沃尔社会住房的人。这些参与者是2017年和2018年调查的329个社会住房家庭的更大研究的一部分。心理健康是由短沃里克-爱丁堡心理健康量表（SWEMWBS）。一系列多变量线性回归模型被用来测试社会网络特征和心理健康之间的关联。社交网络的大小与SWEMWBS显著相关（B = 0.39，p < 0.01），因此，具有较大网络的个体报告更好的心理健康，但在控制社区社会凝聚力后，这种影响消失了。无论是性别组成或与网络成员谈论健康和福祉显着相关的SWEMWBS。研究结果表明，无论是社会关系的数量和社区凝聚力的看法是适度的农村和资源贫乏的地方与心理健康。因此，改善心理健康的努力将受益于针对社会关系的多个方面，而不是仅仅关注增加个人社交网络的规模。
The mental wellbeing of those living in resource poor and rural localities is a public health priority. Despite evidence of a link between social networks and mental wellbeing, little is known about this relationship in the context of rural and resource poor environments. The current study uses novel social network methodology to investigate the extent to which social network size and composition is related to mental wellbeing in a social housing community in rural England. Data come from 88 individuals living in social housing in Cornwall. These participants are part of a larger study of 329 social housing households surveyed in 2017 and 2018. Mental wellbeing was measured by the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS). A series of multivariable linear regression models were used to test associations between social network characteristics and mental wellbeing. Social network size was significantly associated with the SWEMWBS (b = 0.39, p < 0.01), such that individuals with larger networks reported better mental wellbeing, but after controlling for community social cohesion, this effect dissipated. Neither gender composition or talking with network members about health and wellbeing were significantly associated with the SWEMWBS. Findings suggest that both the quantity of social connections and perceptions of community cohesion are moderately associated with mental wellbeing in rural and resource poor localities. As such, efforts to improve mental wellbeing would benefit from targeting multiple aspects of social relationships, rather than focusing solely on increasing the size of individuals’ social networks.