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KMID : 0904520050170010005
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Health and Medical Sociology
2005 Volume.17 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.31
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A Study on the Effect of Neighborhood-Level Contextual Characteristics on Mental Health of Community Residents
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Rho Byeong-Il
Kwak Hyon-Kun
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Abstract
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This empirical study aims at identifying community-related contextual characteristics which are expected to have influence on mental health of community residents. Paying special attention to neighborhood as a geographical unit of community on the one hand and depression as a major form of mental health symptoms on the other, this study has performed a multi-level analysis. It has primarily focused on neighborhood poverty, perceived neighborhood disorder, and social network in neighborhood. Data were collected from 794 adults living in 16 neighborhoods in Daejeon, and a statistical analysis was carried out by applying a hierarchical linear model. The results of this study show the significant effect of neighborhood poverty, neighborhood disorder, and informal social network on depression of the respondents.
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KEYWORD
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Neighborhood, Neighborhood Poverty, Neighborhood Disorder, Social Network, Depression
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