Empirical explanation of citizens'''' sense of security through neighborhood social capital (Case study of citizens 18 years and older in the cities of Mazandaran province)

The sense of security is associated with many economic, social, political and cultural elements of society. The feeling of security is a psychological and social process that people in society play a key role in creating and eliminating it based on their personal and psychological needs, interests, desires and abilities. The main purpose of this study is to answer the fundamental question of whether neighborhood social capital and its dimensions affect the sense of security (economic, social, political and cultural)? If so, is it positive or negative? To answer these questions, data and information were collected using a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study includes people 18 years and older in the cities of Mazandaran province and the sample size includes 1100 people. The descriptive findings of the present study show that the average total social capital of the respondents is 4.74 and the average of the total feeling of security of the respondents is 6.91 out of 10. The inferential findings of the present study show the positive effect of all dimensions of neighborhood social capital on the dimensions of feeling of security and also feeling of security. Findings of regression analysis to explain the sense of security of all respondents showed that the variable of social trust (0.388) and the variable of relationship network (0.161) have the most and the least effect on the dependent variable, respectively. It should also be noted that the effect of all variables on the dependent variable is a positive sense of security. This means that as the amount of neighborhood social capital (social trust, participation, network of relationships) increases, so does the sense of security and its dimensions (economic security, social security, political security, cultural security) and vice versa