TY  - JOUR
AU  - Grav, S.
AU  - Romild, U.
AU  - Hellzen, O.
AU  - Stordal, E.
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Association of personality, neighbourhood, and civic participation with the level of perceived social support: the HUNT study, a cross-sectional survey
T2  - Scand J Public Health
JO  - Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
SP  - 579
EP  - 586
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
KW  - Adult
KW  - Aged
KW  - 80 and over
KW  - Consumer Participation/*statistics & numerical data
KW  - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - *Personality
KW  - Questionnaires
KW  - *Residence Characteristics
KW  - *Sense of Coherence
KW  - *Social Support
KW  - Young Adult
KW  - Perceived social support
KW  - civic participation and gender
KW  - extroversion
KW  - general population survey
KW  - neuroticism
KW  - sense of community
AB  - AIM: The aim of the current study was to examine the association of personality, neighbourhood, and civic participation with the level of perceived social support if needed. METHODS: The sample consists of a total of 35,797 men (16,035) and women (19,762) drawn from the Nord-Trondelag Health Study 3 (HUNT3), aged 20-89, with a fully completed short version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) including a complete response to questions regarding perceived social support. A multinomial logistic regression model was used to investigate the association between the three-category outcomes (high, medium, and low) of perceived social support. RESULTS: The Chi-square test detected a significant (p < 0.001) association between personality, sense of community, civic participation, self-rated health, living arrangement, age groups, gender, and perceived social support, except between perceived social support and loss of social network, in which no significance was found. The crude and adjusted multinomial logistic regression models show a relation between medium and low scores on perceived social support, personality, and sources of social support. Interactions were observed between gender and self-rated health. CONCLUSIONS: There is an association between the level of perceived social support and personality, sense of community in the neighbourhood, and civic participation. Even if the interaction between men and self-reported health decreases the odds for low and medium social support, health professionals should be aware of men with poor health and their lack of social support.
SN  - 1403-4948
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23640173
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494813487447
DO  - 10.1177/1403494813487447
LA  - English
N1  - PMID:23640173
ID  - Grav_etal2013
ER  -