فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: Today, social capital is a need in the society. Also, leisure time and physicalactivities are among the most important productive sources of social capital, which havebeen realized recently. This study aims to find the relationship between social capital andphysical leisure time of the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.Materials and Methods: A descriptive correlation method was used in this study. Twoquestionnaires were used for data collection. Social capital questionnaire is based on SCATModel. Also, leisure time questionnaire was made by the researcher for which face and contentvalidity was verified by experts. Reliability coefficients by using Cronbach’s alpha coefficientswere calculated as 0.92 and 0.82, respectively. Sample population was calculated by Cochran’sformula, and 150 people were selected as the sample using multiple cluster sampling by takingthe sex and college into consideration as the variables. Findings: According to the findings,there was a direct relationship between a combination of social capital parameters (includingcommitment, attitude, trust, participation, mutual relationship, social norm, and unity) andthe way of spending physical leisure time (R = 0.659, P = 0.000). Among the parameters,“commitment” was significant with a beta coefficient B = 0.293 and P = 0.044 and social normswas significant with a beta coefficient B = 0.196 and P = 0.047, but the rest of the factorswere not significant. Conclusion: Playing sport and doing physical activities in the leisure timeand also taking part in group activities and their membership provide a situation for peopleto respect the group interests through communication. Such activities can cause the level ofsocial capital and its factors to be increased.