Causal explanation of children's social skills based on family social capital ‎according to ‎the mediating role of parents' moral character

The aim of this study was to predict‎ children's social skills ‎ based ‎on family social capital according to the mediating role of parents' moral ‎character‎. The study population included all parents of elementary school ‎ students in Yazd who were studying in the academic year 2019-2020. The sample size was ‎‎400 parents who were selected by cluster (multi-stage) random sampling method ‎and 382 of them completed the questionnaires. The social skills rating system (SSRS) ‎, Family social capital ‎questionnaire (FSCQ) ‎‎(Akbari, 2014) ‎, and Moral character ‎questionnaire (MCQ) ‎‎(khormaee and Ghaemi,‎‏ ‏‎2018)‎ were used to measure the studied variables. PLS-SEM was used to perform ‎structural equations. Results Structural equation analysis showed that direct paths ‎of social capital to moral character ‎ are significant (p<0.001, β = 0.23). Direct ‎paths of social capital to social skills are significant. (β= 0.26, P=0.002) The ‎direct paths of moral character ‎ to social skills are significant (β= 0.25, p<0.001). ‎The finding also showed that the indirect path of social capital to social skills is ‎also significant due to the mediating role of moral character‎ (β=0.057, p=0.045). Model fitness indices also showed that the model has an acceptable fitness. ‎It can be concluded that the family social capital can predict the children's social skills‎ both directly and through ‎parents' moral character‎.