zeinab motaghi; mansuor Haghighatian; reza esmaeli
Abstract
After being theorized by the related authorities in the field, the concepts of social and cultural capital are now used for various analyses and explanations in the humanities. The present research intended to investigate the impact of parents' social and cultural capital on the social skills of junior ...
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After being theorized by the related authorities in the field, the concepts of social and cultural capital are now used for various analyses and explanations in the humanities. The present research intended to investigate the impact of parents' social and cultural capital on the social skills of junior high school students in Shahreza County (Isfahan Province) in the academic year of 2018-2019. Questionnaires were used as research tools. Using multi-stage cluster sampling, the sample size for the statistical population (n=386) was determined based on Morgan table. The standard questionnaires were the Social Skills Rating System (Gresham & Eliot, 1990) (with the four components of self-control, empathy, assertiveness, collaboration) and the Cultural Capital Questionnaire (with the components of objective, subjective and institutionalized capital) and the Social Capital Questionnaire (with the components of communication with others inside and outside the family and the internal and external family structure) (Akbari et al., 2014). Reliability of the questionnaires measured by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.86. The findings of this study indicated that there were significant relationships between the parents’ social and cultural capital and the students’ social skills (r=0.69 and p = 0.000 and r = 0.39 and p = 0.000, respectively). Results of the structural equation modeling (SEM) using the Amos software also showed that social and cultural capital was able to explain the social skills (i.e., the criterion variable, R2 =0.46).
