Poff Jared M, Jarvis Jonathan A, Dufur Mikaela J, Pribesh Shana L
Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
Children (Basel). 2024 Jul 10;11(7):840. doi: 10.3390/children11070840.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Child problem behaviors have been linked to immediate and long-term negative outcomes. Research has found that family and peer social capital have a strong influence on child behavioral outcomes. However, most research about social capital and child behavior problems has been conducted in Western contexts. Social capital may influence child behavior problems differently in non-Western sociocultural environments due to different family and peer dynamics.
Using a sample from the Japan Household Panel Survey and Japan Child Panel Survey ( = 182), we expand this literature on various forms of social capital to the Japanese context with data that were collected between 2009 and 2014. We examine the relationship of family and peer social capital with children internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors using OLS linear regression.
Our results differ from what is commonly found in Western contexts. Whereas family and peer social capital are typically associated with both internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors in Western countries, we find that greater family social capital is associated with decreased externalizing problem behaviors but not internalizing problem behaviors in Japan, and peer social capital has no association on either type of problem behaviors.
Our findings emphasize the importance of considering social and cultural contexts when exploring how social capital might encourage prosocial child outcomes.
背景/目的：儿童问题行为与近期和长期的负面结果相关。研究发现，家庭和同伴社会资本对儿童行为结果有很大影响。然而，大多数关于社会资本与儿童行为问题的研究是在西方背景下进行的。由于家庭和同伴动态不同，社会资本在非西方社会文化环境中对儿童行为问题的影响可能有所不同。
我们使用日本家庭面板调查和日本儿童面板调查的样本（n = 182），利用2009年至2014年收集的数据，将关于各种形式社会资本的文献扩展到日本背景。我们使用OLS线性回归检验家庭和同伴社会资本与儿童内化和外化问题行为之间的关系。
我们的结果与西方背景下的常见发现不同。在西方国家，家庭和同伴社会资本通常与内化和外化问题行为都有关联，但我们发现，在日本，更多的家庭社会资本与外化问题行为的减少有关，而与内化问题行为无关，同伴社会资本与这两种问题行为均无关联。
我们的研究结果强调了在探索社会资本如何促进儿童亲社会结果时考虑社会和文化背景的重要性。
