Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Nuremberg, Germany.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 Aug;307:115161. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115161. Epub 2022 Jun 22.
We use German panel data and apply fixed effects regressions to test whether changes in social network size or composition explain why unemployment harms individuals' health. We consider whether the number of weak ties, the number of strong ties, the share of relatives or the share of unemployed individuals among strong ties mediate the negative relation between unemployment and health. We look at various health and health behavior outcomes, such as self-rated health, mental health, physical health, the number of doctor visits and the number of cigarettes smoked. We find no evidence that structural features of the social network play a role in mediating the health-damaging effect of unemployment. We conduct a variety of supplementary analyses that support and extend our results, including mediation tests for emotional support and contact intensity.
我们使用德国面板数据，并应用固定效应回归来检验社会网络规模或构成的变化是否可以解释失业为何会损害个人健康。我们考虑了弱关系数量、强关系数量、强关系中亲属的比例或失业者的比例是否在失业与健康之间的负相关关系中起中介作用。我们观察了各种健康和健康行为的结果，例如自我评估的健康状况、心理健康、身体健康、看医生的次数和吸烟的数量。我们没有发现证据表明社会网络的结构特征在缓解失业对健康的损害方面发挥了作用。我们进行了各种补充分析，这些分析支持并扩展了我们的结果，包括对情感支持和联系强度的中介测试。
