The development of a bridging social capital questionnaire for use in population health research.

ABSTRACT: Bridging social capital is defined as the connections between individuals who are dissimilar with respect to socioeconomic and other characteristics. There is an important gap in the literature related to its measurement. We describe the development and validation of a questionnaire to measure bridging social capital. We focused the development of the questionnaire to be suitable for use in Latino immigrant populations in the U.S. The structure of the questionnaire comprised the following: Socialization in the job place (5 items); Membership in community activities (16 items); Participation in community activities (5 items); Contact with similar/different people (7 items); Assistance (17 items); Trust of institutions, corporations and other people(14 items); and Trust of intimate people (3

SUBMITTER: Villalonga-Olives E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5757980 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature