论社会资本与少数民族居民心理健康——基于宁夏回族居民的实证研究

Research on Social Capital and Mental Health of Minorities——Take Hui Nationality in Ningxia Hui Muslim Autonomous Region as an Example

心理健康与社会资本密切相关。文章通过实地调研,分析了回族居民的心理健康现状,并从社会资本理论视角探究了其对心理健康的作用机制及效果。研究结果表明,回族居民在心理健康量表上的得分均值较高,即整体上心理比较健康;在社会资本各指标中,制度信任、互惠、集体参与三个指标通过了统计检验,支持其对心理健康水平有着显著影响;而亲熟信任和一般信任则对心理健康不产生显著影响。

Mental Health is related to social capital. The paper firstly investigates the current status of mental health of Hui nationality, and then explores the effect and mechanism of social capital on the mental health. The result shows that the mean mental scores is comparatively high, meaning on the whole the interviewees are healthy mentally. Among the relevant variables of social capital, the institual trust, the reciprocity and the engagement are testified to be positively significanlty correlated with the mental health. However, the trust on relatives and the general trust haven＇t pass the significant test.