A Study of the Effect of Social Capital on Subjective Well-Being

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Kerman, Iran

2 Master of Women's Studies, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran m.mohammadinezhad@gmail.com

Abstract

In recent years, subjective well-being has been the focus of researcher as a subjective indicator for quality of life. Subjective well-being is usually considered as a broad category of phenomena that includes the emotional response of people and their general judgments about life satisfaction. The purpose of this article is to investigate relationship between social capital in structural and cognitive dimensions with the level of subjective well-being. This is a survey research through which 380 persons above 20 years of age resident in the residential area of Khatam city have been interviwed through multistage cluster sampling method. The findings indicate that variables of intimacy in the relationship, frequency of contact (structural social capital), institutional trust and social support (cognitive social capital), exert significant effects on subjective well-being. On the whole, the results of multiple regression analysis indicates that the main variables of the study, explain 27 percent of the variance in subjective well-being.

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Quarterly Journal of Social Development (Previously Human Development)
Volume 19, Issue 1 - Serial Number 74
Vol. 19, No. 1, Autumn, 2024
December 2024
Pages 1-26

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