Recognition of the Relationship between Social Capital and Future Hope with the Apathy of the Youth: A Study of the City of Kermanshah

The present research seeks to identify and investigate the relationship between social capital and future hopes with the indifference of youth in Kermanshah. According to the theoretical paradigm dominating the research, a survey method and a questionnaire tool were used for the study. The statistical population of the 20-30 year old youths in Kermanshah, at the time of the research (1397), was 42017 people. Considering the large volume of population, 400 people were studied as a sample. Pearson correlation test, t-test and ANOVA were used to test the hypotheses and to measure the research model, multiple regression and path analysis were used. The results of this study show that among the independent variables such as social capital, hope for the future, income and residential type have a significant effect on the dependent variable (social indifference). The results of multivariate regression show that social capital variables and hope for the future managed to explain and predict 23% of the variation of the dependent variable in total.