STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate prospectively the associations between depression and cognitive social capital (social trust, sense of belonging, mutual aid) and structural social capital (volunteer work and community participation). METHODS This was a prospective study that was carried out in the USA. The participants were a nationally representative sample of 724 English-speaking non-institu...

Trust is an important variable in economics, as several transactions are based on it; unfortunately it is difficult to measure. The recent economic literature on social capital shows a positive association between this concept and trust. As social capital is easier to measure than trust is, this paper analyzes the possibility of assessing trust measuring social capital using experimental econom...

the main purpose followed in this study was to evaluate the role of social capital on organizational learning (ol) of jihad-e-agriculture organization's staffs. the statistical population consisted of all staffs of jihad-e-agriculture organization in kurdistan province (n=150). applying census, a questionnaire was sent to all the members of the study from whom 124 members finally filled in...

Although popularly perceived as a positive force, social capital may also produce socially undesirable outcomes. Drawing on Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, this article shows that participation in its violence was partly determined by the features of individuals’ social networks. Perpetrators possessed larger networks in general and more connections to other perpetrators in particular. The quality as w...

This paper studies the role of social security in the prevention of social deviances. About 304 of high school girl students in Shoush (South west of Iran) were (systematic) randomly chosen. The research method was survey with questionnaire. The data were analyzed through spss along with Pearson coefficient correlation, Analysis of Variance, multivariable regression and path analysis were used ...

the core concept of this article i.e. social capital consists of three main components: scope of social relations, level of social trust, and rate of reciprocity. the research is accomplished through 600 cases of indian and iranian female secondary school students and their parents, in two cities of chandigarh in india and tehran in iran. findings of the research show that the scope of social r...