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The relationship between social leisure time and health outcomes of immigrants

Groen, Esmée (2022) The relationship between social leisure time and health outcomes of immigrants. Bachelor thesis, Sociology.

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Abstract

Immigrants constitute a big part of the Dutch population. It appears that immigrants often perceive their health as being worse than people with a Dutch background. The perceived health of immigrants also seems to be declining over the past years, while the perceived health of people with a Dutch background remains fairly stable. In this research, we were wondering if some of the factors known for contributing to a better health also had an impact on the health of immigrants in the Netherlands. The research question we were interested in answering is: What is the effect of social leisure time on the health outcomes of immigrants? We also were interested in studying whether social integration could have a mediating-effect on the relationship between social leisure time and health. We used multiple datasets from the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS) Immigrant Panel from the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. These datasets are the Health dataset, the Social Integration and Leisure dataset and the Background variables. The data were collected by CentERdata via paid online questionnaires that the respondents filled in every month. The population we were interested in studying were first- and second-generation immigrants who migrated from a (non-)Western country to the Netherlands. In total, our sample consisted of 655 respondents. We did a linear regression analysis to test our hypotheses. These were: (1) the more time is spent in social leisure time, the more positive one’s health outcomes are and (2) the positive effect of social leisure time on the health outcomes of immigrants indeed is partly explained by social integration. We did not find much evidence for both hypotheses. The evidence we did find, is not enough to make hard conclusions and generalizations. This could be due to the composition of the dataset and because social leisure time is a broad concept, whereby this concept is hard to measure. Therefore, it is important for future research to dig into this subject more to see if more time spent in social leisure time indeed goes together with better health.

Item Type: Thesis (Bachelor)
Supervisor name: Giardini, F.
Degree programme: Sociology
Differentiation route: None [Bachelor Sociology]
Date Deposited: 13 Jul 2022 08:33
Last Modified: 13 Jul 2022 08:33
URI: http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/906

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