As the reduction of each component of capital and energy costs are conflicting with each other, the optimization problem is multi-objective.
We employ organizational and relational capital components of structural capital in our questionnaire to measure IC of the participants.
Previous studies have provided evidence for the importance to distinguish the structural components of social capital (structural social capital) from its cognitive components (cognitive social capital).
Previous studies on social capital and mortality did not simultaneously use various components of social capital and their results were not fully consistent.
Vis-à-vis the environmental factors, we distinguished the cognitive and structural components of social capital, and found a salutary effect of cognitive social capital for mental health.
The selection of search terms that were considered to be components of social capital was based on published theoretical literature on social capital in health research [ 75, 76, 100- 102].
To account for this so called 'unequal proximity problem' (45), we conducted hierarchical linear regression analyses in which we included the proximal individual characteristics in step 1 and added the relatively distal components of social capital and in step 2. The estimates of social capital from these analyses refer to the 'direct association' of social capital and mental health outcomes (44).
To contribute to the theoretical structure of this research, Richard Carpiano has developed a conceptual model of neighbourhood social capital processes on individual health outcomes to explain the connection between neighbourhood antecedent factors, different components of social capital, individual characteristics and health [ 31, 32].
Social capital was measured using nine items described by Onyx and Bullen [ 7] as best reflecting components of social capital (i.e. 'participating in the local community'feelingsngs of trust and safety' and 'neighbourhood connections').
The hierarchical linear regression analyses with the individual characteristics as predictors of mental health outcomes in step 1 and Cognitive and Structural Social Capital as predictors in step 2 revealed a substantial decrease of the explained variance of both components of social capital.
Our objective was to examine associations of different components of social capital with self-rated health in Colombia.
