TY - JOUR N2 - Prior studies on social capital and health have assessed social capital in residential neighbourhoods and communities, but the question whether the concept should also be applicable in workplaces has been raised. The present study reports on the psychometric properties of an 8-item measure of social capital at work. ID - discovery5269 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-251 SN - 1471-2458 JF - BMC Public Health A1 - Kouvonen, A A1 - Kivimäki, M A1 - Vahtera, J A1 - Oksanen, T A1 - Elovainio, M A1 - Cox, T A1 - Virtanen, M A1 - Pentti, J A1 - Cox, SJ A1 - Wilkinson, RG KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Anxiety KW - Culture KW - Data Collection KW - Decision Making KW - Organizational KW - Employment KW - Factor Analysis KW - Statistical KW - Female KW - Finland KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Psychometrics KW - Questionnaires KW - Residence Characteristics KW - Reward KW - Social Justice KW - Social Support KW - Workplace TI - Psychometric evaluation of a short measure of social capital at work Y1 - 2006/10/13/ AV - public VL - 6 N1 - A correction for this article is available to download at: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1389153/ © 2006 Kouvonen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC1618843 ER -