Commentary: Reconciling the three accounts of social capital

Kawachi, Ichiro; Kim, Daniel; Coutts, Adam; Subramanian, S. V.

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“…18 Our results confi rmed these expectations, Incorporating measures which allow the different types of resources which make up social capital to be distinguished is recommended. 10 Thus, the social capital scale included in ELSA-Brasil contributes to increasing understanding of different, valued social resources are achieved, or not, in networks of relationships and how close or distant these resources are from the reach of the individuals. …”

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“…10 It is multidimensional and includes trust, social norms and reciprocity in access to resources (which may be, material, emotional or informational), through networks of relationships. 18 According to Lin (1999), 13 social capital is composed of three components: the existence of a network, the individual's involvement in the network and the availability of resources for those participating in the network.…”

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Capital social no ELSA-Brasil: confiabilidade teste-reteste do Resource Generator scale

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OBJECTIVE:To estimate the test-retest reliability of items of the Resource Generator scale for assessing social capital in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study for Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). METHODS:The social capital was applied in a subsample of 281 participants from six ELSA investigation centers, on two occasions with an interval of seven to 14 days. The instrument consists of 31 items that represent concrete situations to evaluate the access to different types of resources. In addition, it evaluates the strength of ties (family, friends or acquaintances) for the available resources. Statistical analyses were performed through use of the kappa statistic (k) and prevalence-adjusted kappa (ka). RESULTS: A high frequency was found for social resources (above 50%).Regarding the presence or absence of resources, prevalence-adjusted reliability (ka) varied from 0.54 to 0.97. With regard to the source for the resource, the reliability estimates ranged from ka= 0.45 ("someone who has good contacts with the media") to ka = 0.86 ("someone who completed secondary education"). CONCLUSIONS:The scale presented adequate levels of reliability, which varied according to the type of resource.

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“…Moreover, this study addresses theoretical critiques on the relevance of network social capital for health (McKenzie et al, 2002;Kawachi et al, 2004) by showing with two well-established measurement instruments that the impact of network social capital on health goes beyond the influence of social support. It suggests that network social capital is more than 'pouring old wine in new bottles'.…”

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The association between network social capital and self-rated health: Pouring old wine in new bottles?

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“…Cross-cutting all of these distinctions is debate as to whether social capital inheres at the individual level, 1 is a property of collectives, 4 or resides at both levels. 5 Proposed mechanisms by which social capital may improve health include the diffusion of knowledge about health promotion, maintenance of healthy behavioral norms through informal social control, promotion of access to local services and amenities, and psychosocial processes that provide affective support and mutual respect. 6bonding and bridging categorizations to more comprehensively encompass social capital domains through multiple indicators, including those for formal social capital, informal social capital, volunteering, and civic and political participation at the community and individual levels.…”

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A Multilevel Analysis of Key Forms of Community- and Individual-Level Social Capital as Predictors of Self-Rated Health in the United States

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Communities may be rich or poor in a variety of stocks of social capital. Studies that have investigated relations among these forms and their simultaneous and combined health effects are sparse. Using data on a sample of 24,835 adults (more than half of whom resided in core urban areas) nested within 40 U.S. communities from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey, correlational and factor analyses were applied to determine appropriate groupings among eight key social capital indicators (social trust, informal social interactions, formal group involvement, religious group involvement, giving and volunteering, diversity of friendship networks, electoral political participation, and non-electoral political participation) at each of the community and individual levels. Multilevel logistic regression models were estimated to analyze the associations between the grouped social capital forms and individual self-rated health. Adjusting the three identified community-level social capital groupings/scales for one another and community-and individual-level sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics, each of the odds ratios of fair/poor health associated with living in a community one standard deviation higher in the respective social capital form was modestly below one. Being high on all three (vs. none of the) scales was significantly associated with 18% lower odds of fair/poor health (odds ratio = 0.82, 95% confidence interval = 0.69-0.98). Adding individual-level social capital variables to the model attenuated two of the three community-level social capital associations, with a few of the former characteristics appearing to be moderately significantly protective of health. We further observed several significant interactions between community-level social capital and one's proximity to core urban areas, individual-level race/ethnicity, gender, and social capital. Overall, our results suggest primarily beneficial yet modest health effects of key summary forms of community social capital, and heterogeneity in some of these effects by urban context and population subgroup.

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Commentary: Reconciling the three accounts of social capital

Cited by 436 publications

References 51 publications

Capital social no ELSA-Brasil: confiabilidade teste-reteste do Resource Generator scale

Capital social no ELSA-Brasil: confiabilidade teste-reteste do Resource Generator scale

The association between network social capital and self-rated health: Pouring old wine in new bottles?

A Multilevel Analysis of Key Forms of Community- and Individual-Level Social Capital as Predictors of Self-Rated Health in the United States

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