| Literature DB >> 29459249 |
Hannah Cohen-Cline1, Shirley Aa Beresford2, Wendy Barrington3, Ross Matsueda4, Jon Wakefield5, Glen E Duncan6.
Abstract
Social capital is associated with depression independently of individual-level risk factors. We used a sample of 1586 same-sex twin pairs to test the association between seven measures of social capital and two related measures of neighborhood characteristics with depressive symptoms accounting for uncontrolled selection factors (i.e., genetics and shared environment). All measures of cognitive social capital and neighborhood characteristics were associated with less depressive symptoms in between-twin analysis. However, only measures of cognitive social capital were significantly associated with less depressive symptoms within-pairs. These results demonstrate that cognitive social capital is associated with depressive symptoms free of confounding from genetic and environmental factors shared within twins.Entities:
Keywords: Depression; Social capital; Twin study
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29459249 PMCID： PMC5834404 DOI： 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.02.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Health Place ISSN： 1353-8292 Impact factor: 4.078