An evaluation of social capital and its influencing factors among villagers of Kermanshah province (Case study: Uramanat Region)

Document Type : علمی

Authors

• Vahid Riahi
• alireza jamshidi
• Davoodi Jamin
• Ramin Cheraghi

10.22067/jrrp.v2i4.17937

Abstract

Social capital has been the key of civil society and its lack of is a fundamental barrier to creation and deployment of Social capital , and has been a major impact on rural development trend, If this investment enhanced and optimized, will have Significant impact on rural development. Thus, the topics of social capital considered as a basic principle for achieving sustainable development and state and government are considered successful that can by adopting need policies and provide appropriate solutions, in connecting to society, achieve to the production and development of social capital. Purpose of this study as a descriptive, correlation and experimental study, is analyzing and studying the social capital and identifying the factors affecting this capital among the villagers in Uramanat region. The statistical population consisted of 22279 households, located in 4 Township of Uramanat regions that by classified sampling method and using Cochran formula 280 households were selected as statistical sample. The research instrument was questionnaire that its reliability and validity by performing pretest and questionnaire data analysis and Coefficient (KMO) and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was confirmed. For analyzing used from descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, and in this study, all statistical calculations were performed by using the SPSS software. Results showed that the Based on the results of one sample T-test, mean of the social capital of studied villagers is 3.9 that is Close to the average of social capital of villagers (3). This value indicates that the social capital of villagers of Uramanat region was evaluated moderate to upper than average. Multivariate regression analysis showed that 55.9 (R2=0.559) from the variance of the dependent variable could be explained by six independent variables: age, level land, overall satisfaction of life, the percentage of income from main job and the job of driver.

Keywords

• Social capital
• Consistency
• Participation
• Confidence
• Sustainable rural development
• Uramanat Region

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