Associations between social capital and depression: A study of adult twins

Hannah Cohen-Cline; Shirley AA Beresford; Wendy Barrington; Ross Matsueda; Jon Wakefield; Glen E. Duncan

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.02.002

Associations between social capital and depression: A study of adult twins

Hannah Cohen-Cline, Shirley AA Beresford, Wendy Barrington, Ross Matsueda, Jon Wakefield, Glen E. Duncan

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	162-167
Number of pages	6
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.02.002
State	Published - Mar 2018

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Depression
Social capital
Twin study

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