Abstract
As a key to local regenerations, social capital (SC) is gathering attention. However, some disagree to look at SC as a characteristic of a local community, and it is also difficult to quantitatively measure SC. Thus, we, here, measured SC of local residents using the resource generator, and used covariance structure analysis to analyze its associations with their evaluations of the communities and their subjective degrees of happiness. The result of the SC measurement indicated that, while the physical supports that did not require information dissemination or sharing, or special skills gained high scores, the physical supports that required special skills or accesses to specialized knowledge or skills gained low scores. There also were generation and gender differences observed in scores. Furthermore, the covariance structure analysis revealed that SC behind the gained number of resources enhanced the residents' attachment and subjective degrees of happiness, that eventually lead to the settling intentions and higher evaluations to the local communities.
