Social Capital and Health Outcomes Among Older Adults in China: The Urban-Rural Dimension
Social Capital and Health Outcomes Among Older Adults in China: The Urban-Rural Dimension
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/gnr072
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Xu, Qingwen
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作者：
Norstrand, Julie A.;Xu, Qingwen
本研究探讨不同类型的个人层面的社会资本（结合，桥接和连接）及其与中国城乡老年人身心健康的关系。控制社会人口学变量的社会资本对城乡65岁及以上老年人的身心健康进行回归分析，在中国城市老年人中，联系社会资本与身体健康和情绪健康显著相关（分别为β = .14; p < .001和β = .11; p < .01），联系社会资本与身体健康显著相关（β = .11; p < .01）。农村老年人的社会资本指标与健康之间没有显著的相关性，社会资本与健康结果之间的关系应考虑到地理环境。如果不消除中国在分配经济和社会资源方面独特的城乡差别，增加社会资本以缩小健康差距的努力可能是不够的。在东方背景下，可能需要进一步概念化社会资本。
This study examines different types of individual-level social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) and their relationships with physical and emotional health among older Chinese living in urban and rural settings.Using the 2005 China General Social Survey, physical and emotional health were regressed on social capital controlling for sociodemographic variables by urban and rural Chinese aged 65 years and older.Bonding social capital was significantly associated with physical and emotional health (beta = .14; p < .001 and beta = .11; p < .01, respectively), and linking social capital was significantly associated with physical health (beta = .11; p < .01) among the urban older Chinese. No significant associations between social capital measures and health were found among rural elders.The relationship between social capital and health outcomes should take into account geographical setting. Efforts to increase social capital in the hope of decreasing health disparity might be inadequate without eliminating China's unique rural-urban distinction in distributing economic and social resources. Further conceptualization of social capital may be required for the Eastern context.