title: The Association of Workplace Social Capital With Work Engagement of Employees in Health Care Settings: A Multilevel Cross-Sectional Analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to examine the cross-sectional multilevel association between unit-level workplace social capital and individual-level work engagement among employees in health care settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data were collected from employees of a Japanese health care corporation using a questionnaire. The analyses were limited to 440 respondents from 35 units comprising five or more respondents per unit. Unit-level workplace social capital was calculated as an average score of the Workplace Social Capital Scale for each unit. Multilevel regression analysis with a random intercept model was conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After adjusting for demographic variables, unit-level workplace social capital was significantly and positively associated with respondents' work engagement (P < 0.001). The association remained significant after additionally adjusting for individual-level perceptions of workplace social capital (P < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Workplace social capital might exert a positive contextual effect on work engagement of employees in health care settings.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine (Ms Fujita); Department of Mental Health (Prof Kawakami), School of Public Health; Department of Mental Health (Ms Ando), Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo; Department of Mental Health (Dr Inoue), Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu; Department of Hygiene (Dr Tsuno), School of Medicine, Wakayama Medical University; Graduate School of Business (Prof Kurioka), Osaka City University, Japan; and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Prof Kawachi), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Sumiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Norito
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: Emiko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: Akiomi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Kanami
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuno
authors.forename: Sumiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurioka
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kawachi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D066270:Social Capital; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*