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- The study explores how social capital influences the link between socioeconomic status (SES) and life satisfaction among adolescents.
- It uses data from a Czech survey involving over 4,400 students to analyze these relationships.
- Results indicate that higher perceived community social capital can enhance life satisfaction and reduce the impact of socioeconomic disparities on well-being.
Article 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 5, 7 and 9 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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