Socioeconomic status, social support and self-rated health among lone mothers in South Korea

Kim, Joo Young; Jeon, Gyeong-Suk; Jang, Soong-Nang

doi:10.1007/s00038-010-0169-9

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“…Respondents were classified as current smokers or nonsmokers, current drinkers or nondrinkers, and having a BMI above 25 or 25 and below. The responses to self-rated health status were collapsed into two categories: excellent/good and fair/ poor/very poor 20) . Any missing variables were deleted according to the criteria explained in Fig.…”

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Working conditions and leisure‐time physical activity among waged workers in South Korea: A cross‐sectional study

Kim

Cho

2015

Journal of Occupational Health

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Working conditions and leisure-time physical activity among waged workers in South Korea: A cross-sectional study: Chungah KIM, et al. School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea-Objectives: Although waged workers' working conditions have notably diversified in South Korea, there is little research addressing this issue. This study explores the relationship between working conditions and engagement in leisure-time physical activities (LTPA) among waged workers in South Korea. Methods: Data from 19-to 64-year-old waged workers (men=2,562, women=1,627) from the 11th wave of the Korean Income and Labor Panel Study were included in this study. Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess the association between LTPA and working conditions by gender. Results: More than 75% of employed persons did not participate in any type of LTPA. For male workers, those in manual, precarious, overtime, and non-shift positions were less likely to engage in LTPA, while for female workers, only manual and overtime work positions were significant factors influencing a low level of LTPA. Conclusions: Some negative work-related factors were associated with low LTPA, especially for male workers. Further studies should be conducted to clarify the pathways and barriers precluding engagement in LTPA due to work-related factors. (J Occup Health 2015; 57: 259−267)

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Working conditions and leisure‐time physical activity among waged workers in South Korea: A cross‐sectional study

Kim

Cho

2015

Journal of Occupational Health

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“…As the study contains longitudinal data, the second and third regression models, which include general health at follow-up as criterion, were additionally adjusted for general health status at baseline. The mediating role of social relations is determined by the percentage reduction in the OR for SES after inclusion of the indicators of social relations using the formula ([OR Model 1 -OR Model 1?social relations ]/ [OR Model 1 -1]) 9 100 (Skalicka et al 2009;von dem Knesebeck and Geyer 2007;Kim et al 2010). Percentage change is displayed when OR is statistically significant in the first model which is only adjusted for age and gender (p \ 0.05).…”

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“…A comparative study found that emotional support explains little of the educational differences in selfrated health among women and men in most European countries (von dem Knesebeck and Geyer 2007), and the 1958 British birth cohort study showed a poor impact of social relations on SES differences in self-rated health (Power et al 1998). Another cohort study illustrated contributions of strong social networks to explain inequalities in mortality; (Skalicka et al 2009) and Kim et al (2010) found out that poorer self-rated health among lone South Korean mothers is partly mediated by social support. A cross-sectional study in the United States found little evidence that social support and social integration mediate the association between SES and self-rated health (Gorman and Sivaganesan 2007).…”

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Do social relations explain health inequalities? Evidence from a longitudinal survey in a changing eastern German region

Klein

Vonneilich

Baumeister

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Int J Public Health

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“…Other aspects, such as social and emotional aspects, may also contribute to SRH. For example, single parents tend to lack social and emotional support in addition to having the burden of child rearing 38) . The importance of other aspects was further supported by our results, which showed that, despite lower income levels, female precarious workers living as couples with children or in single-person households did not suffer from poorer health than their permanent counterparts (see Figs.…”

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Differences in Self‐rated Health by Employment Contract and Household Structure among Japanese Employees: A Nationwide Cross‐sectional Study

Kachi

Inoue

Nishikitani

et al. 2014

Journal of Occupational Health

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Differences in Self‐rated Health by Employment Contract and Household Structure among Japanese Employees: A Nationwide Cross‐Sectional Study: Yuko KACHI, et al. Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School— Objectives The aim of this study was to examine whether the association between employment contract and self‐rated health differs by household structure in a representative sample of employees in Japan. Methods The participants were 81,441 male and 64,471 female employees aged 18−59 years who had participated in the 2010 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions. We assessed the interactive effect of employment contract (permanent or precarious) and household structure (couple only, couple with children, single parent, single person, or other multi‐person) on fair/poor health, adjusting for covariates by using logistic regression. We then calculated the relative poverty rate by employment contract and household structure. Results The interaction effect was significant for women (p<0.001) but not for men (p=0.413). A higher percentage of female precarious workers who lived in single‐parent households (20.2%) reported fair/poor health compared with those in other types of households (10.4−13.2%), although the prevalence of fair/poor health did not differ substantially by household structure among female permanent workers. The relative poverty rates of female precarious workers who lived in singleparent households were higher compared with those of other female workers. Conclusions Our results suggest that female precarious workers are not a homogeneous group and that those living in single‐parent households suffer from poor health due to low income and insufficient coverage by insurance firms and family‐based safety nets.

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Socioeconomic status, social support and self-rated health among lone mothers in South Korea

Abstract: The findings clearly indicate that lone mothers have poorer self-rated health than partnered mothers do, but this detrimental effect cannot be entirely explained by the socioeconomic and social support-mediating factors.

Cited by 30 publications

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Working conditions and leisure‐time physical activity among waged workers in South Korea: A cross‐sectional study

Working conditions and leisure‐time physical activity among waged workers in South Korea: A cross‐sectional study

Do social relations explain health inequalities? Evidence from a longitudinal survey in a changing eastern German region

Differences in Self‐rated Health by Employment Contract and Household Structure among Japanese Employees: A Nationwide Cross‐sectional Study

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