The Effect of Student's Social Capital on their Creativity in Khouzestan Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University

Nourish creativity among students as an essential pillar of knowledge-based development, is fundamental to enhance their competences. On the other hand, experts of creativity domain emphases on action between people and combination of knowledge, idea and information to nourish creativity among students. Thus, this study aims to investigate the social capital role on students’ creativity. Statistical population of this research was consisted of 1400 students in Khouzestan Ramin agricultural and natural recourses university; from those 112 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling. The main tool to collect data was mad questionnaire. Structural Equation Model (SEM) via LISREL8.8 software was used to evaluate validity and reliability of the research questionnaire, and also to examine goodness of the latent variables. Findings of ESM analysis indicated that structural social capital, cognitive social capital and knowledge sharing among students have a direct and significant effect on student’s creativity. While, analysis showed that Communicational social capital don’t have a direct effect on student’s creativity and it effected on student’s creativity within mediation of knowledge sharing variable.