Social capital offers campus recreation professionals a framework to conceptualize the impacts of outdoor orientation programming (OOPs). Using data from The Outdoor Orientation Benchmarking Survey (TOOBS), researchers explored results of participants’ (n = 1,154) responses to two constructs conceptually related to social capital: group trust and network closure. Researchers used factor analysis to examine the psychometric properties of TOOBS, finding group trust and network closure represented different aspects of social capital. Results of the study confirms trust and network closure are related, yet unique aspects of the social capital construct. The results provide an empirically-supported measure for evaluating social capital in outdoor orientation programs.

社会资本为校园休闲专业人士提供了一个框架，用于概念化户外定向编程（OOP）的影响。研究人员使用户外定向基准调查（TOOBS）的数据，探索了参与者（n = 1,154）对与社会资本在概念上相关的两种建构的回应结果：群体信任和网络封闭。研究人员使用因素分析来检验TOOBS的心理计量特性，发现群体信任和网络封闭代表了社会资本的不同方面。研究结果证实信任和网络关闭是相关的，但社会资本结构却具有独特的方面。结果为评估户外定向项目中的社会资本提供了经验支持的方法。