ArticleWellbeing, space and society2020
Depressive symptoms in the aftermath of major disaster: Empirical test of the social support deterioration model using natural experiment.
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- Social cohesion, social capital and mental health: current evidence and future research directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
- Disaster-related home loss, mental health, and risk of cognitive disability: causal mediation analysis using longitudinal data of disaster survivors.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Does social participation foster social support among the older population in Japan? A three-year follow-up study from the Japan gerontological evaluation study.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The impact of exogenous shocks on national wellbeing. New Zealanders' reaction to COVID-19.Applied research in quality of life · 2022Article
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Introduction: We examined the extent to which the post-disaster deterioration of social support and social capital mediates the associations between disaster-related experiences and depressive symptoms among survivors to test the social support deterioration model. Methods: We used unique natural experiment data ( Results: We found that there was deterioration of social support and social capital among individuals with disaster-related experiences. We also found associations between deterioration of social support/capital and worsening of depressive symptoms for specific categories of disaster experiences (i.e., drop in subjective economic status, loss of job, and home loss). However, causal mediation analysis showed little evidence of mediation by post-disaster deterioration of social support/capital. There was some evidence to suggest exposure-mediator interaction such that the association between social support/capital deterioration and depressive symptoms was weaker among those with disaster experiences. Discussion: The social support deterioration model was not empirically supported among older-adult disaster survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, after accounting for exposure-mediator interactions.
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