Estimating the impact of social isolation on subjective health in Europe

Sironi, Emiliano; Wolff, Amelie Nadine

doi:10.1007/s11135-021-01097-8

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“…Also, this study confirmed the findings from extant literature regarding the impact of various factors on subjective health. It provides external validity for prior research in terms of religion [ 8 , 12 ], social gathering [ 10 , 20 ], economic activity [ 15 , 19 ], food expenditure [ 9 , 16 ], leisure expenditure [ 17 , 18 ], travel [ 54 , 56 ], and art watching [ 11 , 14 ].…”

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“…This suggests that interacting with others in social gatherings is essential to improving an individual’s health condition. Indeed, Lei et al [ 10 ] demonstrated that social gathering enhances subjective health; while Sironi and Wolff [ 20 ] showed that isolation undermines an individual’s health condition. The third domain believed to affect subjective health is economic activity.…”

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“…As the main attribute of this research, subjective health is chosen as the dependent variable. Regarding the availability of the data and review of the literature, the candidates’ variables to account for subjective health are religion, social gathering, economic activity, food, leisure, travel, and art watching [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]. By comparing various elements as the explanatory variables for subjective health, this research is to identify more influential attributes.…”

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Antecedents of Subjective Health among Korean Senior Citizens Using Archival Data

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Woo

Shim

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Behavioral Sciences

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This study aimed to investigate the determinants of subjective health among South Korean senior citizens. Secondary data for the year 2018 was used from the Senior Citizen Research Panel data collected by the Korea Employment Information Service. A total of 3822 valid observations were analyzed. The dependent variable was subjective health, and the independent variables were religion participation, social gathering participation, economic activity, food expenditure, leisure expenditure, travel frequency, and art watching frequency. Descriptive analysis, correlation matrix, and independent t-test were carried out for data analysis. Multiple linear regression analysis was employed using assets, age, and gender as control variables to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that all the proposed attributes have a significant positive impact on the subjective health of Korean senior citizens, with implications for policy making.

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Antecedents of Subjective Health among Korean Senior Citizens Using Archival Data

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Shim

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Behavioral Sciences

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“…In the study by Hunt et al (1981), four groups of elderly people were differentiated according to their perceived health status which also accorded with their objective health status, supporting the view that perceptions of individual health are realistic. According to Sironi & Wolff (2021), social isolation influences the deterioration of perceived health status. Moreover, Sun et al (2016) find that SWB varies strongly with perceived health status and that anxiety/depression is most important for SWB.…”

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Evaluating the Potential Socioeconomic Impact of a Proposed Sugarcane Factory on the Village of Mueang Phia, Thailand

Ishii-Adajar

2022

The American Economist

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Thailand is the world’s second largest exporter of sugar, and under the 10-Year Cane and Sugar Strategy (2015–2024), the Thai government has granted an expansion of 13 new sugarcane factories. While most research focuses on the environmental consequences of sugarcane production, this paper examines the potential socioeconomic impact of a proposed sugarcane factory on a nearby (base) village by comparing it to a similar (treatment) village within the same region near an existing sugarcane factory. We find that treatment villagers have higher household income mainly due to their sugarcane-based village economy. They also disclose better perceived environmental quality while results for perceived health status are mixed. Yet, base villagers report higher perceived quality of life, likely due to factors beyond the socioeconomic conditions investigated in this study. Thus, the presence of a sugarcane factory, while socioeconomically favorable, may compromise other aspects of village life that contribute to its overall quality.

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“…These include quasi-experimental strategies such as the potential outcomes/counterfactual theory of causality [ 22 ], the use of natural experiments, and instrumental variables (IV) approaches, which allow considerable control over omitted variables. A recent study [ 23 ] followed such an empirical strategy using cross-country European Social Survey data on adults and subjective general health as an outcome. They estimated an instrumental variable model and found that changes in social isolation influence subjective general health.…”

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Estimating bidirectional effects between social connectedness and mental health in adolescent students: Addressing biases due to endogeneity

Sakellariou

2023

PLoS ONE

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Research on the bidirectional relationship between social connectedness and health/mental health in adolescents is scarce, with most studies on adults. Some of the existing studies exploited the availability of longitudinal data to provide evidence of the existence of a causal relationship, either from social connectedness to health or establish a bidirectional relationship. There are at least two weaknesses associated with earlier research to assess the size of the effects. As acknowledged in the literature, one relates to attributing causality to empirical findings, due to well-known but inadequately addressed endogeneity biases. The other relates to failure to account for potentially important covariates, sometimes due to data limitations, or because such variables are not frequently used in sociological research. Existing research predominantly finds that the strongest path is from social connectedness to health/mental health, with effect estimates modest in size. I followed a quasi-experimental strategy by modelling adolescent students’ perceptions of social connectedness and mental health perceptions as potentially endogenous variables when estimating bidirectional effects. An instrumental variables (IV) modelling approach was followed, supplemented with a recently developed alternative approach to testing the exclusion restrictions of individual instruments. I exploited the rich information available in the PISA 2018 multi-country dataset, which allows for conditioning for a wide array of information on adolescent students’ personal circumstances, self-reported personality-related attributes, relationships with parents; and school characteristics. I found that (1) accounting for endogeneity biases is important; and (2) as opposed to findings reported in the literature, the dominant effect is from mental health perceptions to social connectedness for both male and female participants. The policy relevance of the findings is that adolescent mental health should be the primary focus of interventions, i.e., identifying and treating mental health symptoms as a primary intervention and as a precursor to improving the social connectedness of adolescents.

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Estimating the impact of social isolation on subjective health in Europe

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

Antecedents of Subjective Health among Korean Senior Citizens Using Archival Data

Antecedents of Subjective Health among Korean Senior Citizens Using Archival Data

Evaluating the Potential Socioeconomic Impact of a Proposed Sugarcane Factory on the Village of Mueang Phia, Thailand

Estimating bidirectional effects between social connectedness and mental health in adolescent students: Addressing biases due to endogeneity

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