Social capital and running away from home in high school girl students: the mediating roles of optimism and hope

Running away from home in adolescents is one of the important difficulties of modern families and societies. Adolescents run away from home Hoping to scape problems they face, without thinking about its future consequences. In fact, running away makes more problem for them and for the society. So it’s essential to recognize effective factors in preventing running away. This research aimed the study role of social capital in high school girl students trend to run away from home with attention to mediating roles of optimism and hope.
350 girl students of Tehran high schools have been selected by means of multi-stage random cluster sampling and answered Delaviz Social Capital (2006), Afrasiabi Trend to Run Away from Home (2011), Sheier and Carver Optimism (1985) and Snyder Hope (1991) Questionnaires. Factorial analysis was applied and after deleting phrases with nonsignificant factor loading, the specified model analyzed with LISREL software and statistical method path analysis.
The results indicated significant direct effects of social capital on hope, optimism and trend to running away from home (respectively 0/50, 0/52 and -0/26) and effects of optimism and hope on trend to running away from home (respectively -0/25 and -0/19). Also results indicated significant mediating roles of optimism and hope in the relationship of social capital with trend to running away.
it can be concluded that with increasing social capital, Tendency toward running away from home can be decreased directly. By prompting hope and optimism, we can directly decrease tendency to running away from home, and increase in social capital can impact prevention of escape indirectly as well.