A sociological study of the relationship between social capital and life satisfaction among the citizens of Shahreza

Since the occurrence of satisfaction among members of society can affect many social actions and motivations of individuals, no society or government can consider itself without the need to examine the condition of its members, and therefore it is necessary and relevant that the factors related to satisfaction with The lives of citizens should be examined.Due to the importance of citizenship culture, the present study using field method, survey technique, questionnaire research tool and the use of SPSS and Smart PLS software, sought to investigate the relationship between social capital and life satisfaction among citizens of Shahreza as Is the main goal. The statistical population of the present study is the city of Shahreza, in which 384 citizens aged 18 and over have been studied using the Cochran's formula as a sample size. The results show that between the total amount of social capital (P = 0.34), and its dimensions, ie social trust (P = 0.39), social participation (P = 0.30), social support (0.35) There is a positive and significant relationship between social cohesion (P = 0.32) and social awareness (P = 0.23); Therefore, all research hypotheses are confirmed. Also, the results of the structural equation model (Smart PLS) showed that the social capital variable explains a total of 0.53 of the variances of the life satisfaction variable, taking into account the values ​​of the volume effect of the coefficient of determination of this value in the limit The average is estimated to be 0.28.