Social Capital and Hope for the Future among Students

Hope and optimism about the future are signs of dynamism and vitality in society and of social development, and can be linked to social capital. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between social capital and the students' hope for the future at universities in Bandar Abbas (IAU, PNU and Hormozgan) who were studding in these university during the academic year of 1395-1396(2016-2017). The research method in this study is descriptive-survey typea and data is collected using the questionnaire designed by the researcher. The statistical population consists of all the students undergraduate degree, Master's degree and Ph.D. (IAU, PNU, and Hormozgan) in Bandar Abbass City. From this population, 380 of them where selected and studied using Random Stratified Sampling. The results of the research showed that there is a meaningful relationship between the dimensions of social capital (social trust, social norms and social participation) with hope for the future.