Neighborhood Disadvantage, Network Social Capital, and Depressive Symptoms

Research on why neighborhood disadvantage matters for health focuses on the capacity of neighborhoods to regulate residents' behavior through informal social control. The authors extend this research by conducting a multilevel analysis of data from a 1995 telephone survey of 497 residents of 32...

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Published in:Journal of health and social behavior 2011-03, Vol.52 (1), p.58-73
Main Authors: Haines, Valerie A., Beggs, John J., Hurlbert, Jeanne S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Cities
Context Effect
Cultural Capital
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Depression - epidemiology
Depressive disorders
Disorders
Economic resources
Female
Health
Health Behavior
Health services
Humans
Influence
Linear Models
Male
Medical research
Medical sciences
Mental Health
Mood disorders
Neighborhood Influence On Mental Health and Drug Use
Neighborhoods
Neighbourhoods
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Residence Characteristics
Social behavior
Social capital
Social Control
Social Control, Informal
Social Environment
Social networking
Social Networks
Social structure
Social structures
Social Support
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Telephone Surveys
United States - epidemiology
Values
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Summary:Research on why neighborhood disadvantage matters for health focuses on the capacity of neighborhoods to regulate residents' behavior through informal social control. The authors extend this research by conducting a multilevel analysis of data from a 1995 telephone survey of 497 residents of 32 neighborhoods in a U.S. city. The authors find that network social capital mediates the contextual effect of neighborhood disadvantage on depressive symptoms and that health effects of network social capital persist when perceived neighborhood disorder, a standard indicator of low informal social control, is controlled for. The findings demonstrate the value of a conceptualization and measurement of network social capital that (1) considers ties that transcend neighborhood boundaries, (2) investigates health benefits of network social capital in the forms of closure and embedded support resources and range and embedded instrumental resources, and (3) uses network data on specific network members with strong and weak ties to respondents.
ISSN:0022-1465
2150-6000
DOI:10.1177/0022146510394951