社会资本对城乡居民健康的影响

现有研究普遍认为丰厚的社会资本能够促进人们的健康程度。然而,国内探索社会资本对健康状况影响机制的研究还是比较少。基于此,运用2006年在福建省问卷调查获得的数据,检验了社会资本对城乡居民健康状况的影响程度及其影响机制。通过分析发现,虽然由特殊化信任和普遍化信任两个要素构成的功能部分社会资本对健康显示出积极的作用,但由社团参与数量、亲密网络规模及社会交往频度三个要素构成的结构部分社会资本对健康却显示出负面的作用。分析还发现,结构部分社会资本对健康的负面影响可能是通过加剧人们的喝酒频度来实现的。该研究结果进一步厘清了社会资本在中国社会中对健康状况的影响机制,同时也说明社会资本的作用并不总是正面的。

Effects of Social Capital on Human Health

Most studies today hold that rich social capital will improve human health.However,the domestic studies on the effects and mechanism of social capital on health are relatively few.This research was based on a questionnaire survey in 2006 in Fujian Province of China and got the following results: Though the two factors of special trust and universal trust as functional social capital have positive effects on health,the three other factors,that is,the number of participating communities,the scale of the intimate network and the frequency of social contact as structural social capital that may find expression in the wine-drinking frequency have negative effects on health.It is concluded that the effects of social capital are not always positive.