2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Social epidemiology on social capital and health among Japanese young people
| Project/Area Number |
23300246
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied health science
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| Research Institution | University of the Ryukyus |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
UEJI Masaru 茨城大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20312853)
KURIHARA Atsushi 佐賀大学, 文化教育学部, 教授 (40215067)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
KOBAYASHI Minoru 京都教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70336353)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 学校保健 / 社会疫学 / ソーシャル・キャピタル / 社会的決定要因 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study aimed to explore whether social capital might be an effective concept as one of social determinants of health among youth. First, we newly developed a measurement of social capital at school and neighborhood in youth and verified the psychometric properties of the scale. Secondary, we conducted a large-scale questionnaire survey to examine the association between social capital and health among youth in three regions, i.e., Okinawa, Saga, and Ibaraki. The findings showed that the individual-level social capital at school and neighborhood was positively associated with health and health-related behaviors. Using multi-level modelling, the contextual effect of social capital at school on youth health was partly observed. Although the levels of social capital differed by regions, there were similar cross-regional patterns in relationships with more consistent links between cognitive social capital at school and health than between other types of social capital and health.
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| Free Research Field |
学校保健，公衆衛生，社会疫学
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