ArticleSSM - population health2022
The relevance of social capital and sense of coherence for mental health of refugees.
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- Positioning the Sense of Coherence (SOC) in Disaster Recovery Planning and Design.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Measurement tools used to assess individual health assets among refugee populations: a scoping review.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Comparison of psychological distress, loneliness, and social network structure between Ukrainian war refugees and Polish citizens: a cross-sectional study in Wroclaw.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Strengthening resilience in the aftermath of adversity: evaluation of the group-based intervention Mind-Spring, a naturalistic mixed-methods study among refugee groups in the Netherlands.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- 'This is silent murder' - are we medicalising human distress caused by the reality of life as an asylum seeker in the UK?Perspectives in public health · 2024Article
- Positive mental health and sense of coherence among emergency medical service professionals.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Transitions in sense of coherence among middle-aged women raising adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Migration puts refugees in a completely new social context when simultaneously some have to deal with previously experienced traumatic events and post-migration stressors. Social capital and sense of coherence could be key resources to improve mental health of refugees. This study aims to examine the interplay between social capital (structural and cognitive), sense of coherence and mental health of refugees in the Netherlands. Objective: The present study was conducted to i) examine if social capital (structural and cognitive) and mental health are related in a population of Dutch refugees, and ii) test if sense of coherence has a moderating and/or a mediating effect on this relation. Method: Data were collected through questionnaires (n = 154) in a cross-sectional survey at different locations throughout the Netherlands. The data were analysed with multiple regression analyses and nonparametric bootstrapping using SPSS. Results: Social capital (structural and cognitive) was positively related to mental health. In addition a positive relation between sense of coherence and mental health of refugees was found. The relationship between cognitive social capital and mental health was completely mediated by sense of coherence. No moderation effect of sense of coherence on the relation between social capital and mental health was found. Conclusions: The current study contributed to understanding the social mechanism that determines refugee mental health: participating in social groups (structural social capital) and having supportive and trusting relationships (cognitive social capital), whilst experiencing life as comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful (sense of coherence) are positively related to better mental health of refugees. Findings indicate that preventive interventions aiming to enhance refugees' mental health may be more effective when targeting and promoting both social capital and sense of coherence, from a relatively early stage after arrival in the Netherlands.
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