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This study explores the role of social capital in the livelihoods of rural households in Vietnam, examining both direct and indirect impacts. The author uses a revised sustainable livelihood framework to analyze social capital, focusing on bonding-bridging and linking forms. The study applies quantitative methods to a secondary dataset from a rural household survey, including entropy-weighted indicators, cluster analysis, and SEM models. The findings suggest that social capital has complex and significant impacts on household livelihood strategies. Bridging and linking social capital promotes non-agricultural and wage-based strategies, while bonding social capital drives transfer-based strategies. The study highlights the importance of social capital as a complementary resource to other livelihood capitals, such as financial, human, and physical capital. These results have important implications for policy implementation aimed at supporting rural households and their livelihoods, especially regarding social capital’s interaction with other livelihood capitals. By understanding the complex relationship between social capital, other livelihood capitals and livelihood strategies, policymakers can design more effective policies that harness the potential of social connections to support rural households.

本研究探讨了社会资本在越南农村家庭生计中的作用，同时考察其直接与间接影响。作者采用修正后的可持续生计框架对社会资本展开分析，重点关注粘结型社会资本（bonding social capital）、桥接型社会资本（bridging social capital）与联结型社会资本（linking social capital）三种形式。本研究针对源自越南农村家庭调查的二级数据集采用定量研究方法，运用熵权指标、聚类分析及结构方程模型（SEM）开展实证分析。研究结果表明，社会资本对家庭生计策略具有复杂且显著的影响：桥接型与联结型社会资本可推动非农就业与薪酬型生计策略，而粘结型社会资本则会促进转移型生计策略。本研究强调，社会资本作为金融资本、人力资本与物质资本等其他生计资本的补充性资源，其重要性不容忽视。上述研究结果对旨在扶持农村家庭及其生计的政策实施具有重要参考价值，尤其是在社会资本与其他生计资本的互动关系层面。通过厘清社会资本、其他生计资本与生计策略之间的复杂关联，政策制定者可设计出更具实效的政策，以充分利用社会联结的潜力助力农村家庭发展。