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Original Articles

The social capital and mental health of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway

Socialt kapital och mental hälsa hos långvariga mottagare av socialbidrag i Norge

Pages 91-107 | Published online: 21 Dec 2009
 

Abstract

Previous findings have generally demonstrated the positive mental health benefits of social capital. However, the mental health benefits of social capital for social assistance recipients have not been fully demonstrated. This study analyses the mental health benefits of individual-level bonding and individual-level bridging social capital for 551 Norwegian longer-term social assistance recipients. The findings demonstrate that bonding social capital, i.e. contacts with friends and access to social resources, are positively associated with mental health. Of the variables in the study that relate to bridging social capital, social trust and trust towards the social worker particularly show significant associations for mental health. Consequently, it is important that the mental health benefits of various forms of bonding and bridging social capital are acknowledged within social work practices and that social work practitioners actively aim to increase social trust in longer-term social assistance recipients.

Tidigare forskning har generellt visat positiva mentala hälsoeffekter av socialt kapital. Däremot har inte betydelsen av socialt kapital för mottagare av socialbidrag genomgående studerats. Syftet med denna studie är att analysera mentala hälsoeffekter av sammanlänkande (bonding) och överbyggande (bridging) socialt kapital för 551 långvariga socialbidragsmottagare i Norge. Resultaten visar att sammanlänkande socialt kapital, speciellt kontakter med vänner och tillgång sociala resurser, har ett positivt samband med den mental hälsan. Av variablerna som relateras till överbyggande socialt kapital är det speciellt den generella tilliten och tilliten till socialarbetaren som visar positiva samband. Studien visar att det är viktigt att betydelsen av både sammanlänkande och överbyggande socialt kapital uppmärksammas inom praktiskt socialt arbete och att det sociala arbetet fokuserar på att öka den generella tilliten bland långvariga mottagare av socialbidrag.

Notes

1. Responses, not cases, are counted.

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