The Effect of Social Capital on Health Among European Older Adults: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Arezzo, Maria Felice; Giudici, Cristina

doi:10.1007/s11205-016-1411-5

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“…External family social supports promote resilience among children and reduce psychological distress in high school students ( 53 , 54 ). Among those 60 and older, greater social capital is associated with higher perceived health ( 55 ).…”

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The Family Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Short- and Long-Form

Crandall

Weiss‐Laxer

Broadbent

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Families strongly influence the health of communities and individuals across the life course, but no validated measure of family health exists. The absence of such a measure has limited the examination of family health trends and the intersection of family health with individual and community health. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Family Health Scale (FHS), creating a multi-factor long-form and a uniform short-form. The primary sample included 1,050 adults recruited from a national quota sample Qualtrics panel. Mplus version 7 was used to analyze the data using a structural equation modeling framework. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed a 32-item, 4-factor long-form scale. The four factors included (1) family social and emotional health processes; (2) family healthy lifestyle; (3) family health resources; and (4) family external social supports. A 10-item short-form of the FHS was also validated in the initial sample and a second sample of 401 adults. Both the long-form and short-form FHS correlated in the expected direction with validated measures of family functioning and healthy lifestyle. A preliminary assessment of clinical cutoffs in the short-form were correlated with depression risk. The FHS offers the potential to assess family health trends and to develop accessible, de-identified databases on the well-being of families. Important next steps include validating the scale among multiple family members and collecting longitudinal data.

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The Family Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Short- and Long-Form

Crandall

Weiss‐Laxer

Broadbent

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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“…We consider alternative measures of health (H): self -assessed health on a 5 point scale from very poor to excellent; a measure of daily health limitations measured as a binary variable if a person has limitations in daily activities (coded so that 1 is no limitations); the Euro-D depression scale, a measure of depression, recoded so that higher levels indicate less depressed (Prince et al 1999); life satisfaction, measured on a scale of 1 to 4; the CASP (Control, Autonomy, Self-realisation, Pleasure) measure of quality of life in older people (Hyde et al 2003). We follow the literature to select our set of control variables (y); see for example Arezzo and Giudici (2017), Fiorillo and Sabatini (2015) and Snelgrove et al (2009). In this literature models of individual health status are generally derived from the Grossman (1972) model of demand for health capital where the variables included are those that determine individual investments in health, such as age, gender, education, income, employment status and marital status.…”

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Social capital: exploring the theory and empirical divide

Gannon

Roberts

2018

Empir Econ

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Social capital is an expanding research theme in economics, but it remains a controversial concept and its use as an analytical tool has been questioned. The criticisms are exacerbated by a mismatch between theoretical coverage of the concept and empirical work. We demonstrate, using a large European survey of older people, that social capital is multi-dimensional, and explore the extent to which these latent dimensions coincide with its theoretical constructs. We use the association between social capital and health to demonstrate the importance of accounting for the multi-dimensionality in empirical work. We show that all the dimensions of social capital are associated with health, but while in general this association is positive, close household ties are inversely related to health and well-being. This potential 'dark side' of social capital has been largely neglected to date but is important if social capital is to be a useful analytical tool. Keywords Social capital • Health • Older people JEL Classification Z13 • I14 • J14 B Jennifer Roberts

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“…31 Like resilience, social capital has been shown by others to predict health and, specifically SRH 32 33 and SRH in Open access the elderly. 34 For example, measures of social capital that have been linked to better SRH include higher individual levels of trust, less social isolation and more participation in voluntary associations. 32 33 Both population level social capital and individual resilience seem to capture a group of factors that influence health and may well overlap or be interdependent.…”

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Impact of resilience on health in older adults: a cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS)

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ObjectivesSelf-rated health (SRH) is a predictor of objective health measures, including mortality and morbidity. The link between resilience and SRH among the elderly is unclear. We aim to examine whether resilience aligns with SRH and, secondarily, whether resilience can override the negative health consequences of adverse childhood experiences (ACE).Design and settingWe use 2012, 2014 and 2016 data from the International Mobility in Aging Study, a longitudinal cohort study that collects survey and biophysical data from Albania, Brazil, Colombia and Canada. The main independent variables were resilience and ACE (social and economic).ParticipantsCommunity-dwelling 65–74 year olds (in 2012) were recruited through primary care registers. The sample size of the study was 1506.Primary outcomeThe outcome measure was SRH.ResultsWe found that sex, site, economic ACE, current income sufficiency, current depressive symptoms, current physical function and current resilience were associated with current SRH. In regression analyses, we showed that the association between ACE and SRH disappeared once factors such as sex, site, income, depression, physical health and resilience were considered.ConclusionsThe association between resilience and health poses a compelling argument for building resilience throughout life.

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The Effect of Social Capital on Health Among European Older Adults: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

The Family Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Short- and Long-Form

The Family Health Scale: Reliability and Validity of a Short- and Long-Form

Social capital: exploring the theory and empirical divide

Impact of resilience on health in older adults: a cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS)

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