Low-linking social capital as a predictor of mental disorders: A cohort study of 4.5 million Swedes

Lofors, Jonas; Sundquist, Kristina

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.024

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“…In addition, maternal smoking during pregnancy has been shown to be associated with autism [30]. Neighborhood deprivation is often characterized by neighborhood social disintegration (i.e., criminality, high mobility or unemployment) [26,31,32] and low social capital [25,33,34] that may act as neighborhood stressors. Psychosocial stress can influence immunological and/or hormonal stress reactions [35][36][37].…”

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Neighborhood deprivation and childhood autism: A nationwide study from Sweden

Sjöstedt

Sundquist

et al. 2014

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Neighborhood deprivation and childhood autism: A nationwide study from Sweden

Sjöstedt

Sundquist

et al. 2014

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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“…Putnam (Putnam, 1993) (Woolcock et al, 2000). Previous studies have shown that LSC is associated with poor mental health, poor self-rated health and coronary heart disease (Lofors et al, 2007;Sundquist et al, 2006;Sundquist et al, 2007). To the best of our knowledge, however, previous studies have not assessed the extent to which LCS may be associated with cause-specific mortality among the elderly.…”

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“…During the past decades, there has been an upsurge of interest in the concept social capital and it has been referred to as a societal component that is positively associated with democracy (Putnam, 2000b;Putnam, 1993) and economic wealth (Holzmann et al, 1999;Woolcock et al, 2000). In contrast, lack of social capital has been associated with social disintegration and violent crime (Sampson et al, 1997) as well as adverse health-related outcomes in all ages (Green et al, 2000;Hyyppä et al, 2001;Kawachi et al, 1997a;Sundquist et al, 2006), such as poor selfrated health (Kawachi et al, 1999;Sundquist et al, 2007), poor mental health (Hamano et al, 2010;Lofors et al, 2007), hypertensive status (Hamano et al, 2011a) and coronary heart disease (Sundquist et al, 2006). Current definitions and measurements of social capital have usually been derived from leading social scientists such as Bourdieu, Coleman and Putnam.…”

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Linking social capital and mortality in the elderly: A Swedish national cohort study

Sundquist

Hamano

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Experimental Gerontology

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Objectives Our objective was to examine the association between neighborhood linking social capital (a concept describing the amount of trust between individuals and societal institutions) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the elderly. DesignThe entire Swedish population aged 65+, a total of 1,517,336 men and women, was followed from 1 January 2002 until death, emigration, or the end of the study on 31December 2010. Small geographic units were used to define neighborhoods. The definition of linking social capital was based on neighborhood voting participation rates, categorized into three groups. Multilevel logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and between-neighborhood variance in three different models. ResultsThe results showed an overall association between linking social capital and allcause mortality. The significant OR of 1.53 in the group with low linking social capital decreased, but remained significant (OR = 1.27), after accounting for age, sex, family income, marital status, country of birth, education level, and region of residence. There were also significant associations between linking social capital and cause-specific mortality in coronary heart disease, psychiatric disorders, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, type 2 diabetes, and suicide. ConclusionThere are associations between low linking social capital and mortality from chronic disorders and suicide in the elderly population. Community support for elderly people living in neighborhoods with low levels of linking social capital may need to be strengthened.

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“…Research conducted among 4.5 million Swedes has shown associations between neighborhood level factors, including proportion of residents with low income and low social capital, and mental health hospitalizations and disorders (Lofors & Sundquist, 2007;Sundquist & Ahlen, 2006). Likewise, Silver and colleagues (2002) reported that neighborhood disadvantage and mobility were associated with higher rates of depression and substance abuse in a large community sample of U.S. residents.…”

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Pathways to depression: The impact of neighborhood violent crime on inner-city residents in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Latkin

Davey‐Rothwell

2008

Social Science & Medicine

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Crime and neighborhood disorder may negatively impact the health of urban residents. Neighborhoods with high levels of violent crime may also increase residents' risk of experiencing violence. Most studies supporting the assertion that neighborhood disorder impacts mental health have used residents' own ratings of their neighborhoods. The present study examines the relationships among block-group level crime, perceived neighborhood disorder, violence experienced in the neighborhood, and depression. The sample was comprised of current and former drug users (n=786) nested in 270 block groups within Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Using path analysis, we tested the hypothesis that neighborhood violent crime has a direct impact on experiences of violence. Also, we hypothesized that neighborhood violence had a direct and indirect impact on depressive symptoms. Results support a model in which violence is associated with psychological distress through perceptions of neighborhood disorder, and through experiences of violence. We conclude that community and structural level interventions are needed to decrease neighborhood crime and improve residents' perception of their neighborhood.

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Low-linking social capital as a predictor of mental disorders: A cohort study of 4.5 million Swedes

Cited by 152 publications

References 28 publications

Neighborhood deprivation and childhood autism: A nationwide study from Sweden

Neighborhood deprivation and childhood autism: A nationwide study from Sweden

Linking social capital and mortality in the elderly: A Swedish national cohort study

Pathways to depression: The impact of neighborhood violent crime on inner-city residents in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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