The Role of Social Responsibility and Professional Ethics in Promoting the Social Capital of Physical Education Teachers in Tehran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social responsibility and professional ethics in promoting the social capital of physical education teachers in Tehran. The research was applied in terms of purpose and methodological, descriptive and correlational based on structural equations. The statistical population of this study included all physical education teachers in Tehran during the academic year 1398-1983, which were 2343 in total. Sampling using cluster sampling taking into account the statistical population of the sample size table was used Morgan sample and accordingly the sample size was 425 people. The standard questionnaires of social responsibility and Stuartz (2003), Moghimi and Ramadan professional ethics (2011) and Khodadad et al. (2010) social capital questionnaires were used to measure the research variables. Data were analyzed by SPSS and AMOS software for descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between responsibility with professional ethics, teachers' professional ethics with social capital and social responsibility variable with professional ethics. Finally, the results of structural equations showed that social responsibility through the mediator variable of professional ethics had a positive and significant effect on the social capital of physical education teachers in Tehran.