TY - JOUR
T1 - Particularized trust, generalized trust, and immigrant self-rated health
T2 - cross-national analysis of World Values Survey
AU - Kim, H. H.S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Department of Education of Korea and a grant from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2015-2015S1A3A2046566).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Royal Society for Public Health
PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - Objectives: This research examined the associations between two types of trust, generalized and particularized, and self-rated health among immigrants. Study design: Data were drawn from the World Values Survey (WVS6), the latest wave of cross-sectional surveys based on face-to-face interviews. Methods: The immigrant subsample analyzed herein contains 3108 foreign-born individuals clustered from 51 countries. Given the hierarchically nested data, two-level logistic regressions models were estimated using HLM (Hierarchical Linear Modeling) 7.1. Results: At the individual level, net of socio-economic and demographic factors (age, gender, marital status, education, income, neighborhood security, and subjective well-being), particularized trust was positively related to physical health (odds ratio [OR] = 1.11, P <.001). Generalized trust, however, was not a significant predictor. At the country level, based on alternative models, the aggregate measure of particularized trust was negatively associated with subjective health. The odds of being healthy were on average about 30% lower. Conclusion: The interdisciplinary literature on social determinants of health has largely focused on the salubrious impact of trust and other forms of social capital on physical well-being. Many previous studies based on general, not immigrant, populations also did not differentiate between generalized and particularized types of trust. Results from this study suggest that this conceptual distinction is critical in understanding how and to what extent the two are differentially related to immigrant well-being across multiple levels of analysis.
AB - Objectives: This research examined the associations between two types of trust, generalized and particularized, and self-rated health among immigrants. Study design: Data were drawn from the World Values Survey (WVS6), the latest wave of cross-sectional surveys based on face-to-face interviews. Methods: The immigrant subsample analyzed herein contains 3108 foreign-born individuals clustered from 51 countries. Given the hierarchically nested data, two-level logistic regressions models were estimated using HLM (Hierarchical Linear Modeling) 7.1. Results: At the individual level, net of socio-economic and demographic factors (age, gender, marital status, education, income, neighborhood security, and subjective well-being), particularized trust was positively related to physical health (odds ratio [OR] = 1.11, P <.001). Generalized trust, however, was not a significant predictor. At the country level, based on alternative models, the aggregate measure of particularized trust was negatively associated with subjective health. The odds of being healthy were on average about 30% lower. Conclusion: The interdisciplinary literature on social determinants of health has largely focused on the salubrious impact of trust and other forms of social capital on physical well-being. Many previous studies based on general, not immigrant, populations also did not differentiate between generalized and particularized types of trust. Results from this study suggest that this conceptual distinction is critical in understanding how and to what extent the two are differentially related to immigrant well-being across multiple levels of analysis.
KW - Generalized trust
KW - Immigrants
KW - Multilevel models
KW - Particularized trust
KW - Self-rated health
KW - World Values Survey
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U2 - 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.01.039
DO - 10.1016/j.puhe.2018.01.039
M3 - Article
C2 - 29588067
AN - SCOPUS:85044257689
SN - 0033-3506
VL - 158
SP - 93
EP - 101
JO - Public Health
JF - Public Health
ER -