The Relationship Between Social Capital and Selfreported Health in China

Xue, Xiaochang; Mo, Erxiao; Reed, W. Robert

doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2016-13

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“…All three dimensions of social capital were positively and significantly associated with SRH in our Chinese sample. These results are consistent with previous studies on China [ 8 , 9 , 17 , 18 ]. However, while social trust and social relationship were positively and significantly associated with PWB, CCP membership was not significantly related to PWB.…”

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Social capital and health in China: exploring the mediating role of lifestyle

Xue

Cheng

2017

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundAlthough social capital as a key determinant of health has been well established in various studies, little is known about how lifestyle factors mediate this relationship. Understanding the cross-relationships between social capital, health, and lifestyle factors is important if health promotion policies are to be effective. The purpose of this study is to explore whether different dimensions of social capital and lifestyle factors are related, and whether lifestyle factors mediate the association between social capital and self-rated health (SRH) and psychological well-being (PWB) in China.MethodsThis study used nationally representative data from the 2014 China Family Panel Studies (n = 28,916). The data reported on three dimensions of individual-level social capital: social trust, social relationship and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. Health was assessed using SRH and PWB. Five lifestyle indicators were recorded: healthy diet, physical activity, smoking, sleeping, and non-overweight status. Logistic regression was used to examine the associations between social capital and lifestyle factors, and whether there was a mediating role of lifestyle. Odds ratios relating health status to social capital were reported before and after adjustment for lifestyle factors. Mediation analysis was then used to calculate the total, direct and indirect effects of social capital on SRH and PWB.ResultsThe results show that social trust was significantly associated with all five lifestyle factors. Social relationship was significantly associated with four of the five: healthy diet, physical activity, sleeping and non-overweight. CCP membership was only significantly associated with two lifestyle factors: physical activity and non-overweight. Social trust and social relationship were significantly related to both SRH and PWB. CCP membership was only significantly related to SRH. Mediation analysis found modest evidence that lifestyle factors influenced the relationship between all three types of social capital and SRH. In contrast, only social trust and social relationship, but not CCP membership, were mediated by lifestyle factors with respect to PWB.ConclusionsThis study is the first to explore the mediating role of lifestyle factors in the relationship between social capital and health in China. The overall findings suggest that lifestyle factors modestly mediate the association between social capital and health. The degree of mediating effect varies across different dimensions of social capital. Social capital-based health promotion policies would benefit from taking lifestyle factors into account.

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Social capital and health in China: exploring the mediating role of lifestyle

Xue

Cheng

2017

BMC Public Health

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“…We detect that social participation is an influential determinant of health as suggested by various studies (Xue et al, 2016). In this context, policies should be aimed to build friendly and productive environment in social organizations.…”

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“…Involvement in different organizations enable easy access to facilities and resources that have direct health effects for instance, job opportunities reduce stress and provide high-grade health service. Various studies explain direct positive association between SSC and health (Xue et al, 2016). Whereas few studies find no relationship between SSC and health (Snelgrove et al, 2009).…”

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“…The variable of SSC (social participation) is constructed by making Principle Component Analysis (PCA) 2 of membership in eight organizations using questions of World Values Survey (2014) that include either you are active or inactive member of an organization. Due to causality between SC and health (Xue et al, 2016) endogeneity problem exists in our study. To tackle the endogeneity, we use telephone, internet and mobile subscription as instruments of SC.…”

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Does Structural Social Capital Enhance Health Status? An Empirical Analysis of 60 Countries

Ajaz¹,

Kanwal²

2018

Forman j. econ. stud.

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Structural social capital (SSC) is the extent to which people take part in social networks. Higher degree of social networks among people improve health of individuals, as social networks lower health care utilization, support selfmanagement behaviour and become strong predictors of health. Social participation offers both material as well as moral support to individuals and makes it possible to fight against worries that reduces stress and emergence of chronic diseases. This study analyses the health consequences of social capital using the data of 60 countries over the period 1980-2014. We have used social participation as a proxy of SSC. The empirical studies largely focus on three measures of health outcomes that is physical health, mental health and social wellbeing of individuals separately while we are using these three measures of health in this analysis. Higher degree of social participation gives longevity, lowers mortality rate, improves mental health and enhances well-being. We conclude that social participation reduces distress and mental illness mainly in individuals and acts like a buffer. We also find that social participation in high income countries has beneficial impact on health status as extensive participation in social involvements is linked with a low incidence of health problems. This further reinforces the need for programs to facilitate individuals to improve their health that not only target the policies fostering economic activities but also improve policies which have beneficial impact in increasing social capital.

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“…Second, we used cross-sectional data. Many studies report that the relationship between trust and SRH may be prone to endogeneity (D’Hombres et al, 2010; Howley, 2015; Xue et al, 2016). One way to account for endogeneity is the instrumental variable (IV) approach (Wooldridge, 2016).…”

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In-group trust and self-rated health in East Asia using quadri-national survey data

Sung

Son

2020

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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This study aims to examine the relationship between types of interpersonal trust and health in East Asia. We doubt that generalized trust toward “most people” is a valid and reliable measure of interpersonal trust in East Asia. We thus employ specific measures of in-group and out-group trust to test whether and how each type of trust is associated with self-rated health. We use data from the 2012 East Asian Social Survey administered in China ( n = 5819), Japan ( n = 2335), South Korea ( n = 1396), and Taiwan ( n = 2314) with response rates of 71%, 59%, 56%, and 52%, respectively. Empirical test produces three major findings. First, in-group trust is consistently associated with self-rated health in all four countries, whereas out-group trust is related to health only in Taiwan. By contrast, generalized trust is related to health only in Korea. Second, perceived social support mediates partially of the relationship between in-group trust and self-rated health in China, Japan, and Taiwan. Third, the health benefit of in-group trust is more pronounced in Korea than in China. This study thus calls for the need to use measures of specific types of trust because they are more sensitive in detecting both international and intra-regional variations of health.

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The Relationship Between Social Capital and Selfreported Health in China

Cited by 7 publications

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Social capital and health in China: exploring the mediating role of lifestyle

Social capital and health in China: exploring the mediating role of lifestyle

Does Structural Social Capital Enhance Health Status? An Empirical Analysis of 60 Countries

In-group trust and self-rated health in East Asia using quadri-national survey data

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