Contextual effects of social integration and disintegration on health status: evidence from South Korea

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Results of factor and reliability analyses on social integration

Factor	Item	Factor Loading						Reliability (Cronbach a)
Factor	Item	1	2	3	4	5	6	Reliability (Cronbach a)
Social Communication	Interfamily communication	0.839						0.736
	Communication between employees	0.832
	Communication between neighbors	0.653
	Intergenerational communication	0.625
Political Participation	Present opinions to the government or the press		0.818					0.832
	Post any comments on the online bulletin board		0.811
	Submit a petition		0.728
	File a complaint with a civil servant		0.705
	Participate in demonstrations or rally		0.683
Social Participation (neighborhood)	Lending tools from neighbors			0.901				0.873
	Get help from neighbors			0.886
	Have a casual conversation with neighbors			0.842
	Visiting the neighbor unofficially			0.766
Social Participation (organization)	Volunteer organization				0.735			0.821
	Community public organization (neighborhood associations, etc.)				0.715
	Club (sports, leisure, culture, etc.)				0.698
	Social gathering (reunion, hometown alumni, etc.)				0.682
	Self-improvement groups (certification, etc.)				0.659
	Socioeconomic organization (cooperative society, etc.)				0.654
	Civic organization				0.594
Social Inclusion (in-network)	The villagers get together well					0.887		0.841
	The villagers help their neighbors well					0.873
	The villagers are reliable					0.847
Social Inclusion (out-of-network)	Stranger						0.881	0.736
	Foreigners living in domestic						0.868
	Neighborhood						0.617
Eigen-value		2.019	4.095	2.535	5.749	1.893	1.294
The Explained Variance (%)		57.24	46.59	73.02	40.70	49.11	45.57

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