Relationship between Social Capital and religious beliefs among elementary school students

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social capital andreligious beliefs among elementary school students in the first educational district in thecity of Bandar Abbas in the academic years 2014-15. The study statistical populationconsisted of all elementary school students in Bandar Abbas. The sample size wascalculated based on the Cochran formula as 384 people who were selected by randomstratified sampling method. Bandar Abbas was divided into two districts of 1 and 2 inorder to choose the sample which was selected randomly from each district. The requiredinformation was collected through the field study and actually through direct reference tostudents. The questionnaires of social capital of Delaviz (2005) and religious beliefs ofGeorge (1998) were the information gathering tools. Information collected in the study wasanalyzed by multivariate regression analysis. Results showed that social capital dimensionsexplain 75.6% of students’ religious beliefs in the statistical confidence level of 99%.Accordingly, the dimensions of social capital are an appropriate indicator to reinforcestudents religious beliefs.

Keywords:

Social capital , religious beliefs , Elementary School