Causal explanation of children's social skills based on economic capital with regard to the mediating role of family social capital among parents of primary school students in Yazd

Subject Areas : social psychology

alireza sharifi ardani ¹ , Marzieh Asnanasharieh ² , Elham sharifi ardani ³ , Masoumeh Dashtabadi ⁴ , Fatemeh Abdari Tafti ⁵

1 - PhD Student, Department of Educational Psychology, psychology and Educational Science Faculty, University of shiraz, shiraz, Iran۱
2 - M.A. in School Counseling, Department of Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Ardakan Branch, Yazd, Iran.
3 - M.A. in Family Counseling, Department of Counseling , University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
4 - PhD Student, Department of Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran.
5 - MSc in human resources education and improvement, Department of Psychology & Educational Science, ‎Faculty of Humanities. Imam Javad University ‎College, Yazd, Iran

Received: 2022-03-21 Accepted : 2022-08-03 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Economic Capital# Family Social Capital# children's social skills,

Abstract :

People who experience less opportunities to socialize with others have less social skills and avoid social interactions by failing to socialize. The family has a very important role in providing opportunities for socialization and the formation of social skills in children, therefore, the purpose of this study was to explain the causal social skills of children based on economic capital with respect to the mediating role of family social capital. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was the parents of elementary Public Schools students in Yazd in the academic year 2020-2021. 500 people were considered Sample size According to Klein (2015) based on selecting a sample size of 2.5 to 5 times the number of items, the sampling method was multi-stage clustering, of which 419 people completed the questionnaires. The research instruments included Garsham and Elliott (1990) Social Skills Questionnaire, Akbari Family Social Capital (2014) and a researcher-made economic capital questionnaire. SPSS software version 23 was used to analyze the data and AMOS software was used to perform structural equations. The findings showed that the direct effect of economic capital on social skills (p = 0.015; β = -0.25) is negatively significant and economic capital positively and directly predicts family social capital (p = 0.002; β = 0.55). Family social capital directly predicts children's social skills (p = 0.002; β = 0.67). Findings showed that the indirect effect of economic capital on children's social skills is significant through family social capital (p = 0.002; β = 0.37) and according to the variance accounted for index (VAF = 100%), this mediation role is complete. The calculated fit indices are in the acceptable range (NFI = 0.95, RMSEA = 0.049). In the present research model, the coefficient of explanation of social skills (R2 = 0.33) and social capital (R2 = 0.30) Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that economic capital alone does not play a positive role in the social skills of children and this capital when combined with family social capital can lead to social skills in children.

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