The role of social capital in promoting social health of women in Yazd

The current study examines the relationship between social capital and social health. The present study is a cross-sectional survey and the statistical population included all women aged between 18 and 60 from the City of Yazd. Using Cochran’s formula, 228 individuals were selected through probability-proportional-to-size cluster sampling method (PPS). Keyes’s social health questionnaire (1998) and the author-designed questionnaire of social capital were employed to study the sample. The descriptive analysis (mean, standard deviation, minimum score, maximum score) and inferential analysis (Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression) were used to analyze data. The results of Pearson correlation and stepwise regression indicated that social capital and its dimensions had a significant and direct relationship with social health.