A Study of the Relationship between Bonding Social Capital and Happiness among the citizens of Tehran (1390)

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between bonding social capital and happiness among the citizens of Tehran. Rapid developments in Technology and information have created a gop within contemporary human beings. The growing depression and other mental-social problems show the lack of happiness among people. Through reviewing the related literature, it seems that bonding social capital has an important role in people's happiness. The present study is a correlational one, the statistical population of which are all the citizen in Tehran. The sample of the study, including 412 people, were selected through cluster sampling using Cochran formula. Two questionnaires of boding social capital and happiness (Oxford) were used to collect the data. The findings showed a high relationship between bonding social capital and happiness (0.49). In this research income, education, residential area, and employment had a positive significant relationship with happiness.