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Mental health and adequacy of social support: A four‐wave panel study
Author(s) -
Cramer Duncan,
Henderson Scott,
Scott Ruth
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1996.tb01098.x
Subject(s) - lisrel , mental health , psychology , social integration , sample (material) , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , political science , law
LISREL analyses with manifest variables were used to examine the causal relationship between mental health and adequacy of social integration and of attachment, measured at four consecutive waves each four months apart, in a representative sample of 225 adult residents in Canberra. Mental health was assessed with the 30‐item General Health Questionnaire. The analyses suggest that while there is no temporal relationship between adequacy of attachment and mental health, adequacy of social integration is influenced by earlier mental health. The temporal relationship between adequacy of attachment and adequacy of social integration appears to be reciprocal.