TY  - JOUR
T1  - Mediating effect of social capital in the relationship between  participation and empowerment among Fadama members in  Kankara Local Community, Katsina State Nigeria
A1  - Rilwanu, Aminu
YR  - 2014
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:34484
AB  - This study has been designed empirically to find the role  of social capital in the process of Fadama members’ participation and empowerment achievement. And the research tries to examine the strength of mediation through social capital toward the achievement of Fadama member’s empowerment. After the data collection; the data was   analyzed by using Pearson correlation, multiple linear  regression and sobel test.Findings shows that; the direct effect of participation on empowerment (ć path) is significant (b = 0.339, SE = 0.080, t = 4.208, p = 0.000). And the direct effect of participation on social capital (a path) is significant (b=0.219, SE=0.036, t=6.149, p= 0.000). Finally, the effect of social  capital  (MV)  and  outcome (b path) is significant (b=0.704, SE=0.126, t=  5.577, p=0.000). Therefore, the result depicts that  participation is significantly correlated with empowerment (r=0.346, p=0.000), and also participation is significantly 
correlated with social capital(r=0.343, p=0.000). The
partial effect of social capital on empowerment, with 
participation held constant, fall short of statistical significance of (β = 0.704). Moreover, the direct effect of 
participation on empowerment without social capital is (β = 0.238). The Sobel test shown that participation has 
significant effect on empowerment through social capital  (z=4.115, p=0.000). From this result, the researcher  concluded that there is significant effect of mediation  between participation and empowerment through social  capital.
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