Mediating effects of social capital and social support on the income and health relationship

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dc.contributor.authorGregg, Andrea Kathleen
dc.contributor.supervisorChappell, Neena L.
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-05T20:17:21Z
dc.date.available2008-06-05T20:17:21Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2008-06-05T20:17:21Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractConceptualizations of social cohesion, social support, and social capital are often Overlapping. This thesis aims to clarify and operationalize the term social cohesion, and empirically test the mediating effects of social cohesion on the income and health relationship. First, the inequality/social cohesion treatise postulated by Wilkinson (1996) is deconstructed and its limitations extrapolated. Second, relevant literature is drawn upon to create a social cohesion model that is inclusive of both social capital and social support variables. Third, multiple regression statistical analyses is performed using survey data administered to randomly selected middle-aged residents (N=918) of Victoria, British Columbia. It is argued that past research concerning social capital has been hastily conducted and erroneous conclusions have been drawn concerning social capital as a social determinant of health. This research vindicates the hypothesis that a critical re-examination of the social determinants of health literature is necessary.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/965
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectSocial capitalen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Sociologyen_US
dc.titleMediating effects of social capital and social support on the income and health relationshipen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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