In this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. The innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. Internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characteristi...

While much descriptive research has documented positive associations between social capital and a range of economic, social and health outcomes, there have been few intervention studies to assess whether social capital can be intentionally generated. We conducted an intervention in rural South Africa that combined group-based microfinance with participatory gender and HIV training in an attempt...

health lifestyle is known pattern of collective behaviors that engage in risky health problems and their causes and reasons of health to ensure. accomplished explanations mainly have considered on determinatives such as structural and social factors individual choices. this survey, as a similar approach, focused on discovers the capital causes that influencing on individual choices, which affec...

this research by a quantitative approach tries to study the effect of self-disclosure in social networks on the development of social capital. in this regard, the main emphasis is on the role of spiritual capital. study population is students of tehran university and eventually 380 participated in this study. a questionnaire with five point likert scales that designed from credible sources were...

Background: Working in a hospital involves a lot of long-term stress, which affects people who work in helping professions and are immersed in others’ problems. The present study aimed to determine the relationships of psychological capital, mental health, and health anxiety with psychological vulnerability through the mediating role of emotional processing and perceived social support in nurse...

Social capital is defined as the shared knowledge, trust, and culture, embodied in the structural forms of networks and other stable inter-agent relationships. Social capital has been shown to be more difficult to build than economic capital, and to have greater beneficial effects for community as a whole. The relevance of the social capital concept for transitional agenda is explained by the i...