Journal
JOURNAL OF BLACK PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 422-449Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0095798418780771
Keywords
personality; social capital; depression; African American
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- Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health, through the John Templeton Foundation [11993]
- National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute [R01CA105202]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA105202] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The present study examined the relationship between social capital and depressive symptoms and the moderating role of the Big Five personality constructs in a national sample of African American adults. Data were collected from a national probability sample of 803 African American men and women using a telephone survey including measures of the Big Five personality traits, social capital, and depressive symptomatology. Most interestingly, there was evidence for Personality x Social Capital interactions on depressive symptoms. Higher social capital was related to lower depressive symptomology among persons with low conscientiousness, low extraversion, or high neuroticism. However, social capital was significantly but not as strongly related to depressive symptoms among those with high conscientiousness, high extraversion, or low neuroticism. This study reinforces the importance of personality traits when considering potential protective health effects of social capital in understanding depressive symptoms. This information may be useful to practitioners and community members in prevention and treatment.
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