Individual, household and administrative area levels of social capital and their associations with mental health: A multi-level analysis of cross-sectional evidence

Sehee Han and Hee-Sun Lee

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2013, vol. 59, issue 7, 716-723

Abstract: Background: Research has seldom considered social capital at the individual, household and administrative area level simultaneously and examined its association with mental health. Aim: The main purpose of this study was to examine the association between social capital and mental health while controlling for various confounders at multiple levels using multi-level analysis and operationalizing social capital at the individual, household and administrative area level. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data from the 2010 Seoul Welfare Panel Study conducted by the Seoul Welfare Foundation (participation rates for the household and household members were 87.6% and 87.5%, respectively). Results and conclusions: The main finding of this study was that organizational participation (B = 0.132, p

Keywords: Social capital; mental health; multi-level analysis; ecometrics; South Korea; Seoul (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764012453230

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