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Relations of participation in organized activities to smoking and drinking among Japanese youth: contextual effects of structural social capital in high school

Author: Minoru Takakura

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 6/2015

Abstract

Objectives

This cross-sectional study examined the effect of school-level structural social capital on smoking and drinking among Japanese youth.

Methods

Self-administered anonymous questionnaires were distributed to 3248 students at 29 high schools across Okinawa, Japan in 2008. Structural social capital was measured by students’ participation in organized activities: student council, extracurricular activities, volunteer activities, community sports clubs, and youth associations. Contextual-level social capital was measured by aggregated school-level individual responses.

Results

At the individual level, extracurricular activity participation was negatively associated with smoking and drinking, whereas participation in youth associations was positively associated with smoking and drinking. School-level extracurricular activity participation was negatively associated with smoking among boys, whereas school-level participation in youth associations was positively associated with smoking among boys and girls and drinking among boys.

Conclusions

This study suggests that structural social capital measured by participation in organized activities, especially extracurricular activities, might be an important way for youths to attain good health. This study also supports the idea that particular type of activities, such as youth associations, can lead to the so-called “dark side of social capital”.

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Title: Relations of participation in organized activities to smoking and drinking among Japanese youth: contextual effects of structural social capital in high school
Author: Minoru Takakura
Publication date: 01-09-2015
Publisher: Springer Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 6/2015
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0697-4

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Relations of participation in organized activities to smoking and drinking among Japanese youth: contextual effects of structural social capital in high school

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