Social Capital and Health

By S. Abbott, D. Freeth. Journal of Health Psychology, 2008

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Subfields: Health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Behaviors (2010, background): “Social Support, Social Cohesion, and Peer Influence Group membership—and the characteristics of individuals within communities—can affect health behavior through two forms of social capital (Kawachi et al. 2008).”
Social environment and physical activity: a review of concepts and evidence. (2006, neutral): “Several review articles have been written, each summarizing definitions from sociology, economics, political science, and public health (Berkman, 2000; Cattell, 2001; Edmondson, 2003; Hawe & Shiell, 2000; Kawachi & Berkman, 2000; Kreuter & Lezin, 2002; Kunitz, 2004; Portes, 1998; Shortt, 2004).”
Structural and Cognitive Aspects of Social Capital and All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies (2014, background): “On the other hand, the ability to trust is an important characteristic necessary in order to be able to interact with other persons and to develop supportive relations (Abbott and Freeth 2008).”
The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries (2020, positive): “We expected to find negative associations here given prior evidence of their positive links to health (e.g., Ehsan et al., 2019).”
Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda (2017, background): “Social connectedness is strongly associated with health (Kawachi et al. 2008).”
Social capital and health in European welfare regimes: a multilevel approach (2007, background): “Social trust is analysed here as it is a central feature in core definitions of social capital (Coleman, 1988; Putnam, 1993, 2000) and has been suggested as the ‘capital’ or resource derived from social contacts (Kawachi and Berkman, 2000; Rothstein, 2003; Rostila, 2007).”
The Importance of Different Forms of Social Capital for Health (2007, background): “It has been found that women with large networks are often highly involved in the stress of others, and thus experience more stress themselves than women with smaller networks or than men do (Sarason et al., 1997 in Kunitz, 2004).”
Conceptualizing adventurous nature sport: A positive psychology perspective (2018, background): “As meaningful connections to others has emerged as a fundamental dimension of health and wellbeing (Frumkin et al. 2017; Kawachi, Subramanian, and Kim 2008), and one of the most important predictors of successful aging (e.g. Waldinger and Schulz 2016), this aspect of ANS should be included in…”
It's not that i don't have problems, i'm just not putting them on facebook: challenges and opportunities in using online social networks for health (2011, background): “While a good deal of work has been done to link social capital with health in broad terms [13], the details of how different types of ties actually provide help needs further exploration.”