Lee Chul-Joo, Kim Daniel
School of Communication, The Ohio State University 3062 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, RAND Corporation, Boston, MA, USA.
Soc Indic Res. 2013 Mar;111(1):307-326. doi: 10.1007/s11205-012-0007-y.
The goals of this study were to validate a number of available collective social capital measures at the U.S. state and county levels, and to examine the relative extent to which these social capital measures are associated with population health outcomes. Measures of social capital at the U.S. state level included aggregate indices based on the Annenberg National Health Communication Survey (ANHCS) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Petris Social Capital Index (PSCI), Putnam's index, and Kim et al.'s scales. County-level measures consisted of Rupasingha et al.'s social capital index (RGFI) and a BRFSS-derived measure. These measures, except for the PSCI, showed evidence of acceptable validity. Moreover, we observed differences across the social capital measures in their associations with population health outcomes. The implications of the findings for future research in this area are discussed.
本研究的目标是验证美国州和县层面上一些现有的集体社会资本衡量指标，并考察这些社会资本衡量指标与人口健康结果相关的相对程度。美国州层面的社会资本衡量指标包括基于安嫩伯格全国健康传播调查（ANHCS）和行为风险因素监测系统（BRFSS）的综合指数、佩特里斯社会资本指数（PSCI）、普特南指数以及金等人的量表。县层面的衡量指标包括鲁帕辛哈等人的社会资本指数（RGFI）以及一项源自BRFSS的衡量指标。除PSCI外，这些衡量指标均显示出效度可接受的证据。此外，我们观察到不同社会资本衡量指标在与人口健康结果的关联方面存在差异。本文讨论了这些研究结果对该领域未来研究的启示。
