The most powerful items affect bonding social capital was gender, grade and loneliness.
It shows that female and the higher grade the students in, the higher level of bonding social
capital they would feel. And subjects who score high on the level of loneliness will feel lower
level of bonding social capital. These first two factors accounted for 10 percent of the
variance and loneliness contributed 10 percent of the variance.
The most powerful items affect bridging social capital was face-to-face communication
with friends which accounted for 9 percent of the variance. This indicates that higher level of
face-to-face communication with friends predicts higher level of bridging social capital one
would feel. Face-to-face communication with family members did not affect social capital.
This maybe because that family members may live in different province which lead them
cannot communicate with each other face-to-face very often. Furthermore, the relationship
between family members is much solid compared with relationship between friends. Thus
they can bond or bridge their relationship through ways other than face-to-face
communication.
Smart phone usage and smart phone addiction symptoms together contributed 11 percent
of the variance for bonding social capital and 9 percent of the variance for bridging social
capital. In the meanwhile, face-to-face communication with friends, the strongest predictor
for bridging social capital, is showed to be positively and significantly related to smart phone
use and negatively and significantly associated with smart phone addiction symptoms. This
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reveals that use of smart phone properly or being addicted do have an impact on bonding
social capital no matter directly or indirectly.