The purpose of this research was to investigate the causal relationship between media literacy and social responsibility with the mediating role of cultural capital in female students. The statistical population included all the female students of Ahvaz Islamic Azad University, in 2022. The sample subsumed 310 subjects whom were selected by convenience sampling procedure. The applied method was correlational and structural equation modeling type. The measuring instruments were Media literacy Questionnaire (Falsafi, 2014), Social Responsibility Questionnaire (Talabi and Khosbin, 2015), and Cultural Capital Questionnaire (Bourdieu, 1999). The data were analyzed by applying structural equation modeling and using SPSS-24 and AMOS-24. The results showed that the proposed model had a relatively acceptable goodness of fit indices. The findings indicated a direct and significant relationship between media literacy dimensions (understanding the content of media literacy, awareness of the hidden goals of media literacy, conscious selection of media literacy, critical look at media literacy and media literacy analysis) with social responsibility and cultural capital. In addition, cultural capital had a positive and significant relationship with social responsibility. The results also revealed an indirect significant relation of media literacy and social responsibility via mediating the cultural capital. Therefore, increasing the level of media literacy and cultural capital plays an important role in increasing social responsibility in female students.
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