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The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia

Social capital has been widely recognised in the recent development literature to have positive consequences on societal well being. However, most studies examine the impact of social capital on some narrow indicators of well being such as income, poverty, education and health. While these indicato...

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Main Authors: Abdul Hakim, Roslan, Ismail, Russayani, Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
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Language:English
Published: Ontario International Development Agency 2010
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HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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spelling my.uum.repo.122762016-04-24T01:59:59Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/12276/ The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia Abdul Hakim, Roslan Ismail, Russayani Abdul Razak, Nor Azam HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social capital has been widely recognised in the recent development literature to have positive consequences on societal well being. However, most studies examine the impact of social capital on some narrow indicators of well being such as income, poverty, education and health. While these indicators do measure and represent the standard of living of the society, and are important development objectives,they focus only on the material aspect of well being.Therefore, it does not really shed light on whether social capital is associated with quality of life which is the subjective aspect of well being.This gives rise to the question on whether social capital also leads to better quality of life. This paper attempts to fill this gap by extending the analysis not only on the impact of social capital on income, but also on quality of life.Empirical evidence on the links between social capital and quality of life is provided by performing regression analysis.The analysis is carried out using primary data obtained from a survey of 2500 rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia. The results show that social capital has a significant impact not only on household income but also on quality of life.These results imply that investment in social capital is crucial to achieve development objectives. Ontario International Development Agency 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/12276/1/SS.pdf Abdul Hakim, Roslan and Ismail, Russayani and Abdul Razak, Nor Azam (2010) The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia. OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, 1 (5). pp. 99-106. ISSN 1923 - 6654 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1671066
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topic HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
spellingShingle HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Abdul Hakim, Roslan
Ismail, Russayani
Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia
description Social capital has been widely recognised in the recent development literature to have positive consequences on societal well being. However, most studies examine the impact of social capital on some narrow indicators of well being such as income, poverty, education and health. While these indicators do measure and represent the standard of living of the society, and are important development objectives,they focus only on the material aspect of well being.Therefore, it does not really shed light on whether social capital is associated with quality of life which is the subjective aspect of well being.This gives rise to the question on whether social capital also leads to better quality of life. This paper attempts to fill this gap by extending the analysis not only on the impact of social capital on income, but also on quality of life.Empirical evidence on the links between social capital and quality of life is provided by performing regression analysis.The analysis is carried out using primary data obtained from a survey of 2500 rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia. The results show that social capital has a significant impact not only on household income but also on quality of life.These results imply that investment in social capital is crucial to achieve development objectives.
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author Abdul Hakim, Roslan
Ismail, Russayani
Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
author_facet Abdul Hakim, Roslan
Ismail, Russayani
Abdul Razak, Nor Azam
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title The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia
title_short The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia
title_fullStr The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in Terengganu, Malaysia
title_sort relationship between social capital and quality of life among rural households in terengganu, malaysia
publisher Ontario International Development Agency
publishDate 2010
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