Multi-level social capital effects on residents: Residents’ cooperative behavior in neighborhood renewal in China

Ruopeng Huang, Queena K. Qian, Guiwen Liu, Kaijian Li, Henk J. Visscher, Xinyue Fu and Wenshun Wang

Land Use Policy, 2025, vol. 148, issue C

Abstract: China has recently shown great enthusiasm for developing neighborhood renewal, and good cooperation within resident groups is the key to successful implementation. Residents’ cooperative behavior is easily influenced by social relationships among residents, which are referred to as resident-level social capital. Further, resident-level social capital is influenced by the neighborhood effects, known as neighborhood-level social capital. However, few studies examined the impact of social capital on residents’ behavior from the perspective of both resident-level and neighborhood-level. This paper aims to examine the multilevel social capital that influence residents’ cooperative behavior in China. Using social capital theory and the theory of planned behavior, this study collects questionnaire survey data from 1039 residents in 98 neighborhood renewal projects in China. The results from multilevel structural equation modeling suggest that residents’ social capital can directly influence residents’ cooperative behavioral intention. The variability of neighborhood-level social capital and the impact of multidimensional social capital were examined. The findings of this study have strengthened the explanatory power of the theory of planned behavior and expanded the application scope of social capital theory. The results provide a more cultural and historical perspective, that is, resident relationships, for promoting cooperation among residents in neighborhood renewal.

Keywords: Neighborhood renewal; Social capital; The theory of planned behavior; Cooperative behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107383

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