Study of Relationship between Social Capital and Quality of Life (QL) among Physical Education Teachers

Document Type : Research Paper

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Hossein Eydi (PhD) Assistant Professor of Razi University

Abstract

Background: The aim of this paper was to survey about the relation between social capital and quality of life (QL) among Physical Education teachers.
Methodology: In this study, our target community was 416 people that 250 cases were selected by Multi-stage cluster sampling method. For assessment of Social Capital used onyx and Bullen (2000) scale and for assessing QL used WHO questionnaires respectively. Validity estimate with Cronbach test that was 0.81 and .0.83 for tow questionnaire. Data were analyzed with spearman brown correlation and Regression tests.
Results: Result showed that among social capital factors, structural factor was most important factor and relationship factor were low important. Most important factor of life quality was Physical Health factor and environmental factor were low important. Also, correlation test showed that there was a significant correlation between total social capital with total life quality (r =0/514), Also regression analysis showed that social capital anticipated .34 0/0 of QOL variance of Physical Education Teachers.
Discussion: according our finding showed that there was positive correlation between social capital and health related QOL among teachers. It appears that communication factor as most important factor of could increases QOL of physical education teachers.

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