A Survey on the Relationship between Social Capital and Mental Wellbeing of the Golestan Education Office Staff

Abstract

This study seeks to answer the fundamental question that whether there is a meaningful relationship between social capital and mental wellbeing of the Golestan Education office staff. The survey method is descriptive and correlation. Statistical society of the research is all the staffs of the Golestan Education office with the academic degree of diploma or primary diploma, BA, MA and above. These staffs were 120 people and based on the Morgan and Kerjesi's table, 92 of them were chosen by the method of random sampling. The data was collected by the method of library and sampling and the paraphernalia is the standard questionnaires of Volcat and Narayan's social capital and the mental health. Questionnaire validity was confirmed by teachers and guides. Questionnaire reliability was measured respectively 80% and 77% for the social capital and mental health questionnaires by the method of Cronbach's alpha. For the analysis of the data, the Spearman correlation test was used and at last, the SPSS software was used to confirm the normality of the data. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social SciencesNovember , Vol. 3, No. 11 ISSN: 2222 391 www.hrmars.com/journalsThe results show that there is a meaningful relationship between all the elements of the social capital (In-group social capital, Out-group social capital, and communicative social capital) and the mental health of the Golestan Education office staff .