Social Capital and Subjective Well-being in the Countries of the Andean Community (CAN)

In the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), its political management seeks to establish the level of social capital and subjective well-being of the population. This study utilizes data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey (WVS) to analyze social capital and subjective well-being in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. A total of 5343 cases were collected using non-probabilistic sampling, and the research is documentary and temporally horizontal, covering the period from 2017 to 2021. Data were processed using SPSS software version 25, with variables measured on a Likert scale of 1 to 3 (1 = a lot, 2 = a little, 3 = not at all). Descriptive statistics were applied for the first objective, while Spearman's correlation was used to analyze the relationship between social capital (CS) and subjective well-being (BS). Among the most important results, it is evident that Colombia and Ecuador have a better perception of life satisfaction compared to Bolivia and Peru. The strongest correlation was found between trust in women's organizations and trust in charitable or humanitarian organizations, with a Spearman's Rho of 0.585. These findings highlight that CS and BS are indispensable variables for understanding people's perception of their environment.