Community Social Capital and Depressive Symptoms Among Older People in Japan: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to examine the contextual effects of community-level social capital on the onset of depressive symptoms using a longitudinal study design.

Methods

We used questionnaire data from the 2010 and 2013 waves of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study that included 14,465 men and 14,600 women aged over 65 years from 295 communities. We also used data of a three-wave panel (2006-2010-2013) to test the robustness of the findings (n = 7,424). Using sex-stratified multilevel logistic regression, we investigated the lagged associations between three scales of baseline community social capital and the development of depressive symptoms.

Results

Community civic participation was inversely associated with the onset of depressive symptoms (men: adjusted

SUBMITTER: Yamaguchi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6737188 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature