Pathways and Processes Linking Social Support to Health: Development of an Exploratory Model With South African Caregivers

Casale, Marisa

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“…Those with collectivist values appear to have better experiences of health than those with individualist values. Greater social support is signi cantly associated with improved mental health and self-reported physical health (Casale, 2021). Furthermore, it should be noted that while Schwartz's value of self-transcendence is similar to collectivism, there are also differences.…”

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Chinese Residents' Cultural Value and Health： Lifestyle and General Trust As Mediators

Shangxin¹,

Yang²

2021

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BackgroundChina is currently in a period of transition, traditional Chinese culture and modern culture gives rise to different interpretations with regard to health. In order to analyze the relationship between cultural values and residents’ health, we examined the current situation of cultural values in China and identified the mediators of Chinese culture value and health.MethodsUsing Chinese data from the 2007 and 2012 World Values Surveys (WVS), we measured the self-rate healthy and culture value, analyzed the relationship between cultural values and health by binary logistic regression, and the regression coefficient is tested to determine whether there is a mediating effect of active lifestyle and general trust. To measure culture value, we use Schwartz's scale In addition, in order to facilitate the comparison of coefficients between Logit models, the "Y * normalization" method is adopted in this paper.ResultsIt was found that, first, the traditional components of Chinese residents’ cultural values remained more prominent than modern ones, although the transformational trend from traditional to modern was obvious. Second, different cultural values had different effects on residents’ health. Specifically, “openness to change” and “collectivism” positively contributed to health, “conservation” was harmful, and “individualism” had no statistically significant effect. To better understand the relationship between cultural values and residents’ health, the specific connotations of each value were examined. Further, the mechanism of cultural values’ effect on health was analyzed. “Lifestyle” was found to play a physiological role in influencing health while “general trust” played a psychological role. ConclusionThe present study identify lifestyle and general trust are the mediators of Chinese culture value and health. Finding indicate that modern culture and transitional culture both have positive influence to health. To improve Chinese residents’ health in the context of cultural transformation, healthier lifestyles should be promoted, greater openness to modern culture should be adopted, essential traditional culture should be maintained, and social trust should be promoted. Further study should consider the two-way causal relationship of cultural values and self-reported health and find more influence trace of the two mentioned former.

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Chinese Residents' Cultural Value and Health： Lifestyle and General Trust As Mediators

Shangxin¹,

Yang²

2021

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“…Here it is necessary to expose the idea of authors such as Koenig et al (2012), who consider positive and negative emotions and social support as very important variables in the relationship between religion, spirituality, and mental (and also physical) health. Indeed, positive emotions (Harpøth et al 2020;Park et al 2014;Yoo et al 2017) and social support (Casale 2021;Wang et al 2018) are known to have positive impact on health and well-being, the opposite being true for negative emotions (Miyamoto et al 2013;Piqueras et al 2010). In any case, the relationship of these variables with trust/mistrust in God has been studied.…”

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Validation of “Trust/Mistrust in God Scale” for Spanish Cancer Patients

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Trust/Mistrust in God have turned out to be two constructs that have great relevance in the study of the relationship between religion, spirituality, and health. In Spain, there are no instruments adapted to measure trust/mistrust in God, which limits the work of researchers interested in these aspects. Therefore, the aim of this study was to validate the Brief Trust/Mistrust in God Scale (BTMGS) in Spanish. The scale translated into Spanish was applied in a sample of 178 oncologic patients together with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and the significant others subscale of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, due to the existing evidence of relationships between the variables evaluated by these measures. Internal consistency, structural validity, convergent and discriminant validity were evaluated. The Spanish adaptation of the BTMGS obtained high internal consistency, both for trust subscale (α = 0.95) and for the mistrust subscale (α = 0.86). Furthermore, the correlations found between the BTMGS and the measures of positive and negative emotions and social add evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. These results suggest that the Spanish version of the BTMGS is a valid and reliable measure to be used in research on religion, spirituality and health in Spanish-speaking contexts.

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Social Support for South African Caregivers of Children Living with Perinatally Acquired HIV

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Pathways and Processes Linking Social Support to Health: Development of an Exploratory Model With South African Caregivers

Cited by 4 publications

References 78 publications

Chinese Residents' Cultural Value and Health： Lifestyle and General Trust As Mediators

Chinese Residents' Cultural Value and Health： Lifestyle and General Trust As Mediators

Validation of “Trust/Mistrust in God Scale” for Spanish Cancer Patients

Social Support for South African Caregivers of Children Living with Perinatally Acquired HIV

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