Department of Behavioral and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
J Relig Health. 2012 Dec;51(4):1061-74. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9635-4.
African American faith communities are an important source of social capital. The present study adapted a theory-based social capital instrument to result in religious (e.g., from organized worship) and spiritual (e.g., from relationship with higher power) capital measures. Data from a national sample of 803 African Americans suggest the instruments have high internal reliability and are distinct from general religiosity. Measurement models confirmed factor structures. Religious capital was positively associated with self-rated health status. Religious and spiritual capital were negatively associated with depressive symptoms, but these associations largely became nonsignificant in multivariate models that controlled for demographic characteristics. An exception is for spiritual capital in the form of community participation, which retained a negative association with depressive symptoms. These instruments may have applied value for health promotion research and practice in African American communities.
非裔美国人的信仰社区是社会资本的重要来源。本研究采用了一种基于理论的社会资本工具，得出了宗教（例如，来自有组织的礼拜）和精神（例如，来自与更高权力的关系）资本的衡量标准。来自全国 803 名非裔美国人的样本数据表明，这些工具具有较高的内部可靠性，并且与一般宗教信仰不同。测量模型证实了因子结构。宗教资本与自我评估的健康状况呈正相关。宗教和精神资本与抑郁症状呈负相关，但在控制人口特征的多变量模型中，这些关联大多变得不显著。一个例外是社区参与形式的精神资本，它与抑郁症状仍然存在负相关。这些工具可能对非裔美国人社群的健康促进研究和实践具有应用价值。
