Studying the effect of social capital on altruism in Tehran city

Introduction: Since altruism is a high social value and moral& social duty therefore its weakness and it will lead to disorders in social discipline, so the study of how and why of these actions occurrence is necessary and important in the society. We can identify other cultural and social components by recognizing the altruism actions and the effective factors on its appearance in the society also, we can recognize moral and cultural-social situation of the society. Therefore, the main goal of this research is to determine how recognizing of different components of social capital on altruism in social relationships can be prepared the way for altruism development. Methods: The resent research is performed by document searching in measurement. The analysis method refers to secondary analysis. So in this research, the collected data from Tehran city is analyzed by secondary method. These data are collected by Iran Medical Sciences University. World Health Organization, Tehran Municipality, and Jihad University as "Evaluation tool and justice answering in municipal health" pattern in Tehran parishes on August-September ۲۰۰۸. The numbers of research samples were more than ۲۰۶۷۰ citizens above ۱۸۸ years old of Tehran residents. Findings: The results of resent research showed that the people with high social capital are more altruism than others. The results of regression due to social capital components (social trust, formal partnership, informal partnership, social relationship, values, and sense of belonging) show that among social capital components only social trust, sense of belonging and informal partnership have meaningful and positive effect on the altruism. Also in second equation, explaining of altruism due to total independent variables show that the components; social trust, sense of belonging, informal partnership and education have meaningful and positive effect on the altruism. Conclusion: Due to the results of this research, the social capital and its components have important effect on the altruism actions, so to develop in all aspects of social system and personality by enhancement of social capital and the level of society and personality system between people and moral action rate, especially altruism action will increase.

کلیدواژه ها:

Altruism ، social capital ، social trust ، sense of belonging ، social participation ، نوع دوستی ، سرمایه اجتماعی ، اعتماد اجتماعی ، احساس تعلق ، مشارکت اجتماعی