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Although studies have suggested that community social capital contributes to narrow income-based inequality in depression, the impacts may depend on its components. Our multilevel cross-sectional analysis of data from 42,208 men and 45,448 women aged 65 years or older living in 565 school districts in Japan found that higher community-level civic participation (i.e., average levels of group participation in the community) was positively associated with the prevalence of depressive symptoms among the low-income groups, independent of individual levels of group participation. Two other social capital components (cohesion and reciprocity) did not significantly alter the association between income and depressive symptoms.

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Author

Haseda, Maho; Kondo, Naoki; Takagi, Daisuke; Kondo, Katsunori

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1353-8292)

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences