A Study on the Effect of Social Capital on Life Satisfaction

This survey is stratified random sampling among 425 students in Islamic Azad University of Mashhad (north east of Iran) in 2011 the questionnaire has been implemented in the research. The validity of the questionnaire for face validity and Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient is used. In this study, social capital indexes like "social participation, social trust and networks of social relationship" with a questionnaire designed by the researchers and "life satisfaction" questionnaire of Diner has been measured. The Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regressions were used in the data analysis. There is a significant relationship between social capital and life satisfaction in the research and social participation, social trust and social network with a significant relationship between life satisfactions has been tested. Multivariate regression analysis shows that social network variables in explaining the effect of changes in life satisfaction have special role.