The impact of social and cultural capital variables on parental rating of child health in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22945192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Dunt (0000-0001-8450-7949, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), B Hage (The University of Melbourne), Margaret Kelaher (0000-0002-9899-858X, The University of Melbourne) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 290-301 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Promotion International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapro/daq070 |
| PMID | 21088006 |
| OpenAlex | W2102193030 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The aim of this paper is to study the effects of factors broadly captured under the rubric of parental social and cultural capital on child health. The setting was 11 disadvantaged communities in Victoria, Australia during the conduct and evaluation of Best Start, an early childhood initiative of the Victorian State Government. Questionnaires were sent to parents of 3-year-old children in 2004 and 2006. The principal dependent variable was parental global rating of their child's health. Social capital variables focussed, for example, on community support for parent's child rearing practices. Cultural capital variables focussed, for example, on parent's reading to their child. Socio-economic status and other potential confounding variables were also measured. Stepwise multivariable logistic regression was used. There were consistent independent effects for the cultural capital variables-'Age started reading to the child' and 'Confident being a good parent', and only one of a number of social capital variables-'Community support for childrearing' as well as for some other variables particularly that 'Child had a chronic health/medical condition'. Dichotomizing parent's global ratings of their child's health differently had some effects on results. Cultural capital and, to a lesser extent, social capital variables were associated with parent's rating of the child's health. It is now timely to conduct and evaluate programs aimed at improving parents' cultural capital. Better measures or inventories of parent's cultural capital will be essential for this.
Cultural capital · Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Environmental health · Political science · Social capital · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Child and Adolescent Health · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |