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KMID : 0614420150430020149
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Mental Health & Social Work
2015 Volume.43 No. 2 p.149 ~ p.175
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Study on the Causal Relationship between Human Capital, Social Capital, and Depression
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Choi Hye-Ji
Lee So-Young
Chung Soon-Dool
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Abstract
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This study was based on discussions regarding a direction of the causal relationship between human capital and social capital, and difference in the ideas on impact mechanism of social capital on depression such as direct verse indirect. The purposes of this study were 1)to identify the model showing the highest model fit in explaining the causal relationship between human capital, social capital, and depression 2)analyze the direct and indirect impacts of human capital and social capital on depression. Data from 1216 Korean adults aged 20 and over were analyzed by structural equation model.
Results of this study revealed that model 3 had the highest model fit which developed on the following premises that human capital determined social capital and that social capital mediated the impacts of human capital on depression. Model 3 showed that human capital impacted on depression directly as well as indirectly through social participation and social network. As human capital increased, social participation and social network increased. In turn, increase in social capital caused increase in depression but increase in social network was associated with decrease in depression. Implications of finding from this study were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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human capital, social capital, depression, structural equation model, model comparison
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