Investigating the Relationship Between Social Trust and Awareness of Citizenship Rights with the Mediating Role of Political Capital (Case Study: Ahvaz Citizens)

Awareness of citizens’ citizenship rights and duties in the affairs of society is one of the most challenging topics, based on this, the purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between social trust and awareness of citizenship rights with the mediating role of political capital among the citizens of Ahvaz city, from the point of view of Sociological methods have been used in this regard.

This research is a survey and the tool for collecting information is a researcher’s questionnaire. The statistical population of the research includes citizens aged 20 to 65 in Ahvaz city, whose sample size was determined based on Cochran’s formula of 526 people, and after separating the incomplete questionnaires, 506 were collected and analyzed. Analysis of the collected data was also done using Amos and Spss software. In terms of time, this research was carried out in 1399-1400.

The research results show that the variables of social trust and political capital have a significant effect on the dependent variable (awareness of citizenship rights). Also, the results showed that the variable of political capital has a mediating role in the relationship between social trust and the variable of awareness of citizenship rights. In the measurement model section; Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, composite reliability, average variance extracted and factor loadings for all research constructs, and in the structural model section, T-Value indices, path coefficients, coefficient of determination, show that the final model has acceptable results. . Based on the findings, the average of the combined index of the variables is evaluated at the medium level. In total, the variables of the research were able to explain 55% of the variance of the variable of awareness of citizenship rights.

The results show that the model has an acceptable fit and the two variables of social trust and awareness of citizenship rights have a high average.