Department of Public Health, Gunma University, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
Department of Public Health, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.
PLoS One. 2021 Oct 13;16(10):e0258472. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258472. eCollection 2021.
In Bandung, Indonesia, urban expansion, rapid economic growth, and population increase present enormous challenges to the maintenance of a high quality of life (QOL) for its citizens. Moreover, income distribution in the city has become more unequal, thereby threatening social cohesion. Such situations led us to investigate the states and correlation of social cohesion and QOL in Bandung. In 2018, we conducted a questionnaire survey of social cohesion and QOL using 13 and 18 question items, respectively. We employed the Rasch model analysis to analyze the logit measures of 752 responses. The results revealed that the population of Bandung has high social cohesion and decent QOL. Our findings suggest that in Bandung QOL is significantly correlated with social cohesion, therefore strategies that seek to enhance social cohesion may be beneficial to improve the QOL.
在印度尼西亚万隆，城市扩张、经济快速增长和人口增加给市民维持高质量生活（QOL）带来了巨大挑战。此外，该市的收入分配变得更加不平等，从而威胁到社会凝聚力。这种情况促使我们研究万隆的社会凝聚力和 QOL 的状况和相关性。2018 年，我们使用分别包含 13 个和 18 个问题的问卷对社会凝聚力和 QOL 进行了调查。我们采用了 Rasch 模型分析来分析 752 份答卷的对数测量结果。结果表明，万隆的人口具有较高的社会凝聚力和良好的 QOL。我们的研究结果表明，在万隆，QOL 与社会凝聚力显著相关，因此，寻求增强社会凝聚力的策略可能有助于提高 QOL。
