caa a22 4500 606151680 CHVBK 20210128100545.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-014-9525-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-014-9525-3 Hommerich Carola German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, 102-0094, Tokyo, Japan aut Feeling Disconnected: Exploring the Relationship Between Different Forms of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Japan [Elektronische Daten] [Carola Hommerich] This paper analyzes the role of social connectedness in motivating citizens to take an active interest in society and to engage in communal activities. Japan is used as an example of a society which has been diagnosed with a weakening of social bonds, as well as with an increase in social inequality and precarity in recent years. Structural equation modeling was applied to data of a nationwide survey from 2009, to test the assumption that feelings of disconnectedness from society exert a negative effect on civic engagement that needs to be differentiated from effects of general social trust. Results support this hypothesis and further indicate that it is not socioeconomic precarity per se that lowers chances for civic engagement, but its negative impact on the subjective evaluation of both the quality of social networks and one's belonging to and value for society. As precarity, however, enforces the negative effects of low social capital, this implies that specially the socially disadvantaged are less likely to participate. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2014 Social capital nationallicence Civic engagement nationallicence Precarity nationallicence Social trust nationallicence Disconnectedness nationallicence Japan nationallicence VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-02-01), 45-68 0957-8765 26:1<45 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9525-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9525-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hommerich Carola German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, 102-0094, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/1(2015-02-01), 45-68 0957-8765 26:1<45 2015 26 11266