Background: Numerous studies have explored the relationship between social participation,
depression, cognitive function, and life satisfaction in community-dwelling older adults …

Public mental health deals with mental health promotion, prevention of mental disorders and
suicide, reducing mental health inequalities, and governance and organization of mental …

The present study aims to examine whether the frequency of parent-child contact and the
parent-child relationship can mediate the relationship between Internet use and Chinese …

Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our
pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has …

Social engagement is a fundamental component of health and quality-of-life outcomes. Our
goal in this chapter is to assess the relationship between social engagement and health …

Loneliness is especially frequent among older people in Southern Europe. Furthermore,
promoting social capital to tackle loneliness and its health effects is an understudied …

Objectives: To study the relationship between social capital and depression among older
adults from urban China and the mediating effect of social support on the influence of social …

A growing body of evidence has suggested that social capital is an upstream social
determinant of mental health. We investigated the association of cognitive social capital …

Technology has the ability to foster social engagement, but a sizable divide exists between
older and younger adults in the use of social communication technologies. The goal of the …

Objectives This study examined the mutual effects of social participation and depressive
symptoms in middle-aged and older Chinese adults from offline and online perspectives …