Evaluating Social Happiness of Female Students by Social Capital

Social capital is in interaction with social happiness that is element of quality of life and happiness among the female students, regarding the influence of the aforesaid group on society, is a matter of importance. The research has been developed with the aim of evaluating the rate of social happiness based on social capital of female students. The population of the research includes all female students in the P.N.U and I.A.U in Saveh with the number of 5244 in year1396; out of which, using the Cochran Formula, 373 students, were chosen as sample population. To collect data, questionnaire for Oxford social happiness evaluation and the researcher questionnaire made of social variables with structure credit have been used and applying Cronbakh's Alpha Technic the permanence of both questionnaires has been calculated as 0/87 and 0/81, respectively. Social capital has a significant relationship with social happiness variable in both structural and cognitive dimensions. Also social happiness can be explained through the dimensions of social capital. In addition, structural dimension of social capital, including participation, scope of activities and social commitments, they have shown more influence over the cognitive dimension of social capital, including cohesion, trust, values and social attitudes.