Community social structure, social capital and adolescent smoking: a multi-level analysis
| Autor: | Margret Valdimarsdottir, Thorolfur Thorlindsson, Stefan Hrafn Jonsson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent Geography Planning and Development Iceland Social support Residence Characteristics medicine Humans Parent-Child Relations Poverty Single-Parent Family Concentrated Disadvantage Public health Data Collection Multilevel model Smoking Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support Social mobility Demographic economics Female Psychology Social psychology Social status Social capital |
| Zdroj: | Healthplace. 18(4) |
| ISSN: | 1873-2054 |
| Popis: | Using a sample of 6818 individuals in 83 public school districts in Iceland, this study explored the influence of three community characteristics: Residential mobility, proportion of single-parent families, and poverty on adolescent daily smoking. Building on Coleman's social capital theory, we also examined the mediating and moderating role of several measures of social capital. Both self-reported and official data were used to measure key variables. The main findings are consistent with theoretical predictions showing that social capital partly mediates the association between community characteristics and adolescent daily smoking both on the community and individual levels. Likewise, the findings show that the association between individual level poverty and adolescent daily smoking varies across levels of neighborhood social capital. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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