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The role of community social capital in the relationship between socioeconomic status and adolescent life satisfaction : mediating or moderating? Evidence from Czech data

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Date
12/12/2016
Author
Buijs, Thomas
Maes, Lea
Salonna, Ferdinand
Van Damme, Joris
Hublet, Anne
Kebza, Vladimir
Costongs, Caroline
Currie, Candace
De Clercq, Bart
Keywords
Health inequalities
Social capital
Life satisfaction
Youth
Czech Republic
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RJ101 Child Health. Child health services
HM Sociology
NDAS
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Abstract
Background. The concept of social capital has been extensively used to explain the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent health and well-being. Much less is known about the specific mechanism through which social capital impacts the relationship. This paper investigates whether an individual’s perception of community social capital moderates or mediates the association between SES and life satisfaction. Methods. This study employs cross-sectional data from the 2009–2010 Czech Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey: a WHO Collaborative Cross-National Study (HBSC). A sample of 4425 adolescents from the 5th, 7th and 9th grade (94.5% school response rate, 87% student response) was used to perform multilevel analysis. Results. We found that pupils’ life satisfaction was positively related to both family affluence and perceived wealth. Moreover, we found the cognitive component of social capital to be positively associated with life satisfaction. Additionally, a significant interaction was found, such that the social gradient in life satisfaction was flattened when pupils reported high levels of perceived community social capital. Conclusions. The present findings suggest that community social capital acts as an unequal health resource for adolescents, but could potentially represent opportunities for public health policy to close the gap in socioeconomic disparities.
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Buijs , T , Maes , L , Salonna , F , Van Damme , J , Hublet , A , Kebza , V , Costongs , C , Currie , C & De Clercq , B 2016 , ' The role of community social capital in the relationship between socioeconomic status and adolescent life satisfaction : mediating or moderating? Evidence from Czech data ' , International Journal for Equity in Health , vol. 15 , 203 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0490-x
Publication
International Journal for Equity in Health
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0490-x
ISSN
1475-9276
Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s). 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) under contracts No. LG14042 and No. LG 14043.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9972

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