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Abstract The relationship between community attachment and depression is examined in a sample survey (N = 295) in two midwestern rural towns and their surrounding open‐country areas. When community attachment, a variable through which a rural resident's social integration into the local community affects mental health, was low, higher levels of symptoms of depression were observed. The economic viability of the local community was found to have a relationship to mean depression scores in the towns but not in the open‐country areas.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Changes in Russian Agriculture: New Institutional Structures in the Countryside -- 2 Peasant Households and the Transition to a Market Economy and Democracy -- 3 Population and Household Structure in Rural Russia -- 4 Research Design -- 5 Household Structure and Labor -- 6 Community Attachment and Social Networks -- 7 Physical Capital -- 8 Household Agricultural Production and Sales -- 9 Employment, Household Income and Durable Goods -- 10 Mental Health and Symptoms of Depression -- 11 Subjective Quality of Life -- 12 Supporting Sustainable Households and Communities in an Era of Globalization -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Subject Index

AbstractThis paper examines the impact of human capital (the number of working age household members), social capital (social exchange helping networks and community integration), technological capital (use of mechanical agricultural tools), and village of residence on stratification of Russian peasant households in the post‐Soviet era. Findings from a 1995 survey of households in three Russian villages show that the number of working age adults in the household has the strongest influence on household agricultural production. Social capital and technological capital also are associated with differences in the amount of sales obtained from household production. One village, which is located in anoblast(province) which has a program to assist peasant households had substantially higher agricultural production than did the other two villages which are located inoblastiwithout such programs. The number of working age adults in the household, social exchange networks, and community attachment are negatively associated with symptoms of stress, while higher village levels of production are associated with higher average levels of symptoms of stress in the village. The implications of the findings for the future of Russian agriculture and Russian rural village life are discussed.

Kishoree Kontha ("Adolescent Girls' Voices") was implemented in Bangladeshi villages to build the developmental assets (e.g., support from others, social competencies) of rural girls through peer education in social skills, literacy, and school learning. The Developmental Assets Profile (DAP) measured the project's impact on ecological and individual assets. Analysis of two cohorts involving more than 600 intervention and 400 control adolescents (Mage = 13.5) showed a significant increase in project girls' developmental assets, with an average effect size, net of contamination and control group scores, of .80. The results suggest the Project's effectiveness in improving human and social capital for vulnerable adolescent girls living in rural Bangladesh villages, and the utility of the DAP as a cross‐culturally relevant measurement tool.