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The Impacts of the Neighborhood Built Environment on Social Capital for Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans

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dc.contributor Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management
dc.contributor Center for Gerontology
dc.creator Hwang, Eunju
dc.creator Brossoie, Nancy
dc.creator Jeong, Jin Wook
dc.creator Song, Kimin
dc.date 2021-01-22T18:04:04Z
dc.date 2021-01-22T18:04:04Z
dc.date 2021-01-14
dc.date 2021-01-22T15:46:59Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:54:31Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:54:31Z
dc.identifier Hwang, E.; Brossoie, N.; Jeong, J.W.; Song, K. The Impacts of the Neighborhood Built Environment on Social Capital for Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans. Sustainability 2021, 13, 756.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102012
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020756
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281836
dc.description The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the neighborhood built environment (NBE) aspects of age-friendly cities and communities (AFCCs) and social capital in the Korean context. We described and compared age differences when analyzing misfits of AFCC NBE and impacts on social capital. We collected the data (<i>N</i> = 1246) from two Korean communities; our multiple and binary logistic regression outcomes show that AFCC NBE aspects such as outdoor spaces, transportation, and housing are significant predictors of different subcategories of social capital. For the older group, the outdoor spaces misfit was significant for all three subcategories of social capital, but transportation and housing misfits were significant for the social trust and reciprocity index scores. For the middle-aged group, the outdoor spaces misfit was significant for social networking and participation, and a transportation misfit was significant for participation and social trust and reciprocity. Fewer misfits or better fits of outdoor spaces and transportation encouraged more networking, participation, social trust, and reciprocity. Dwelling type was important to predict social capital, especially for the older group. The present study confirmed the importance of AFCC NBE in predicting social capital and unique factors in the Korean context.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject built environment
dc.subject walkability
dc.subject social capital
dc.subject age-friendly neighborhoods
dc.title The Impacts of the Neighborhood Built Environment on Social Capital for Middle-Aged and Elderly Koreans
dc.title Sustainability
dc.type Article - Refereed
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