The impact of social capital on enhancing community affiliation of farmers in one of the villages of South Sinai Governorate

Abstract

This study aimed to achieve the following objectives, to identify the levels of community affiliation of the respondent farmers,. This study was conducted in the village of )Ras Masala( in the center of Ras Sidr on a regular random sample of the total number of farmers, and the number of this sample reached 260 farmers. The data was collected by a questionnaire form through a personal interview. Furthermore, descriptive )frequency and percentage(, analytical )simple correlation chi-square test and stepwise multiple regression(. The most important results of the study were as follows: The results of the distribution of respondents according to the levels of community affiliation indicated the tendency of the levels of community affiliation of the respondents to decrease and mediate, as it was found that about 85.77% of the total respondents are characterized by low to medium levels of community affiliation. There is a significant correlative relationship between the level of community affiliation of the respondents and the following study variables: age, main occupation, marital status, family size, family type, number of years of formal education, communicative ability, cultural openness and ambitious level, participation in development activities, the total degree of social capital, sub-axes of social capital )size of social relations network, membership of organizations, degree of trust capital, leadership position(. This is at the probability level of 0.01