A multiple indicator, multiple cause method for representing social capital with an application to psychological distress |
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| Authors: | Peter Congdon |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geography and Center for Statistics, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Rd, London, E1 4NS, UK |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes a structural equation methodology for obtaining social capital scores for survey subjects from multiple
indicators of social support, neighbourhood and trust perceptions, and memberships of organizations. It adjusts for variation
that is likely to occur in levels of social capital according to geographic context (e.g. level of area deprivation, geographic
region, level of urbanity) and demographic group. Social capital is used as an explanatory factor for psychological distress
using data from the 2006 Health Survey for England. A highly significant effect of social capital in reducing the chance of
psychiatric caseness is obtained after controlling for other individual and geographic risk factors. Allowing for social capital
has considerable effects on the impacts on psychiatric health of other risk factors. In particular, the impact of area deprivation
category is much reduced. There is also evidence of significant differentiation in social capital between population categories
and geographic contexts. |
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