Investigating the Effect of Social Capital on the Quality of Life of the Studied Rural Households: Kavir District, Khalil Abad County, Razavi Khorasan Province

Today, rural social capital is one of the components of the wealth of nations, which can play a prominent role as an effective factor in the increase and efficiency of other forms of capital (human, economic, physical). Meanwhile, villages are a suitable platform for the formation of this type of capital, because this type of capital has been able to overshadow the quality of life of rural households. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of social capital on the quality of life of rural households. This research is applicable in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of method. Data collection was done in two ways, documents and field (questionnaire). The statistical population of the research includes the heads of households in the villages of Dehistan Kavir located in Khalil Abad city of Khorasan Razavi province, based on the Cochran formula, the sample size of 319 households was calculated and distributed randomly. Shannon, Copras, SAR model and stepwise regression were used for data analysis. In this research, using the Shannon technique, the trust index got the highest score (0.8226) and the local network index got the lowest score (0.6633). The results of the regression analysis showed that among the four components of social capital, the trust component has the greatest effect on improving the quality of rural households, according to the beta values.