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Correlating Post-disaster Support Network Density with Reciprocal Support Relation Satisfaction: An Elderly Cohort Within One Year of the 2011 Japan Disasters

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  • Adam Jon Lebowitz

    (Jichi Medical University)

  • Shinji Sato

    (University of Tsukuba)

  • Miyuki Aiba

    (Toyo Gakuen University)

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While there has been much empirical investigation into how social support networks improve mental health in post-disaster communities, network density—the extent members within a network are acquainted—remains under-researched. This study examines correlations between support network density and support reciprocity satisfaction in an elderly sample (N = 221), and the influence on post-disaster depression and trauma symptomology in a fishing community south of the Fukushima nuclear plant within 1 year of the March 11, 2011 Japan earthquake. The Brief Inventory of Social Support Exchange Network (BISSEN) taps support network density, support source by relational category, tangible and emotional type, and providing or receiving direction of social support. Density measurement convergent validity was established from questionnaire responses. After confirming network density construct and criteria validity, and extracting components reciprocal support relationship satisfaction, correlation between these two variables was moderate at r = 0.34. However, reciprocity satisfaction moderately explained mental health variance, but results were not significant for density nor interaction between predictors. These results question the assumption that support network density and support reciprocity can be validly incorporated into a construct of “social capital” necessarily promoting mental health.

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  • Adam Jon Lebowitz & Shinji Sato & Miyuki Aiba, 2018. "Correlating Post-disaster Support Network Density with Reciprocal Support Relation Satisfaction: An Elderly Cohort Within One Year of the 2011 Japan Disasters," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 37(6), pages 923-939, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:poprpr:v:37:y:2018:i:6:d:10.1007_s11113-018-9498-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s11113-018-9498-9
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