Evaluating the Relationship between Social Capital and Spatial Affiliation with the Spatial Approach (Case Study: Rural Areas of Roudbar County)

Everyone's sense of attachment to their home and place of residence can have a significant impact on rural communities. Location ownership among rural households is also an important factor in shaping user-environmental relationships that will lead to the creation of quality environments in rural areas. This research is an applied and descriptive-analytical approach with a sample size of 450 people from rural areas in Rudbar. The data collection tools used in this study included: library studies to collect information on research literature and then field research through observation and questionnaire. The statistical population of the study is Kurdish villages of Gilan province located in Rudbar city with 18 villages and total population of 2955 (based on Census 2016). Using Morgan table, 450 samples were selected. The reliability of the questionnaire was estimated to be 0.874 for the sense of placeholder indices and 0.915 for the social capital indices based on Cronbach's alpha. In this study, we used Kiiging method for zoning social capital and social capital. In other words, the method of data analysis is based on spatial statistics. The results show that the spatial distribution of attachment to the place is north and south, and the villages in the center to the southwest have the least attachment and the northern villages have the best situation. In terms of spatial distribution of social capital, the best situation is in the central part of the villages and the least spatial distribution in the southwest and to some extent in the southeast.