The Relationship between Social Capital and the Way of Spending Leisure Time, Based on Physical Activities

today, social capital is a need in society. Also, leisure time and physical activities are among the most important productive sources of social capital which has noticed nowadays. This survey studies the relationship between social capital and physical leisure time of faculty members of Esfahan University of Medical Sciences.

descriptive correlation method is used in this study. Two questionnaires are used for data collection. Social capital questionnaire is based on SCOT Model. Also, leisure time questionnaire made by researcher which Face and content validity of it was verified by experts. Reliability coefficients by using Cornbrash’s alpha coefficients were calculated at 0.92 and 0.82 respectively. Sample populations measured by Khan’s Formula, they are 150 people that were selected as sample using multiple cluster sampling by taking the sex and college into consideration as variables.

according to the findings there is a direct relationship between a combination of social capital parameters (include commitment, attitude, trust, participation, mutual relationship, social norm and unity) with the way of spending physical leisure time. (R = 0.0659, P = 0.001). From among the parameters commitment is the only parameter which is significant with Beta coefficient (B = 0.293, P = 0.044) and social norms with Beta coefficient (B = 0.196, P =0.047), but the rest are not significant.

Playing sport and doing physical activities in the leisure time and also taking part in group activities and their membership provide a situation for people to respect the group interests through communication. Such activities can cause the level of social capital and it`s factors to be increased.