Masoom Muhammad Rehan
School of Business & Economics, United International University, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh.
Heliyon. 2024 Mar 31;10(7):e28932. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28932. eCollection 2024 Apr 15.
This cross-sectional study examined if social capital affects women's health attributions. The study used the Internet Social Capital Scale (ISCS) and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) Scale to measure Social Capital and Health Locus of Control. A predefined 38-item questionnaire was used to survey 485 purposively selected women. A bidirectional reciprocal structural equation model was used to measure the covariance between Social Capital and Health Locus of Control. We hypothesized that women with strong social capital, particularly those rich in bridging ties, would exhibit a greater sense of agency and empowerment over their health, attributing their health outcomes less to internal factors like fate and more to external influences like powerful others and broader social support. However, we found that when women have higher social capital, their external health locus of control increases. Bridging and bonding social capital lower women's internal health control, but bridging social capital leads to higher attributes to powerful others. Likewise, we expected women with more social capital would exhibit a lower perception of uncontrollability over their health, but is not the case. The findings underscore the necessity for women to have more social capital.
这项横断面研究考察了社会资本是否会影响女性对健康的归因。该研究使用互联网社会资本量表（ISCS）和多维健康控制点（MHLC）量表来衡量社会资本和健康控制点。一份预先定义的包含38个条目的问卷被用于对485名有目的地挑选出的女性进行调查。一个双向互惠结构方程模型被用来测量社会资本和健康控制点之间的协方差。我们假设，拥有强大社会资本的女性，尤其是那些拥有丰富桥接关系的女性，会对自己的健康表现出更强的能动性和掌控感，将她们的健康结果较少归因于命运等内部因素，而更多地归因于有权势的他人和更广泛的社会支持等外部影响。然而，我们发现，当女性拥有更高的社会资本时，她们的外部健康控制点会增加。桥接型和纽带型社会资本会降低女性的内部健康控制，但桥接型社会资本会导致对有权势的他人有更高的归因。同样，我们预期拥有更多社会资本的女性会对自己的健康表现出更低的不可控感，但实际情况并非如此。这些发现强调了女性拥有更多社会资本的必要性。
