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Abstract Background:and goals: university students in a society form an active and vast group whose social and mental health is affected by different factors and is prone to social risks and defects. this study tries to evaluate the relationship between the social capital and its triple dimensions (subjective cultural capital, objective cultural capital, characteristic cultural capital) in Bourdio theory and the level of risky behaviors (including tendency to drugs and addictives, cigarettes, alcohol, harmful relationship with opposite gender and dangerous driving) in Yazd university students. Method: this study is a field descriptive study and its type is covariance. the survey tool used in this study is cultural capital and risky behavior questionnaire and students were selected using symmetric level sampling. this study was performed on 384 students in bachelor degree in Yazd university. they were selected using symmetric classification method with the society size and randomly. the gathered data was analyzed using Amos, SPSS19. Results: findings of the study revealed that there is a meaningful negative relationship between the cultural capital and Yazd university students presenting risky behavior and between the triple dimensions of the cultural capital, there is a meaningful negative relationship between the characteristic and objective capitals and presentation of risky behavior risky behavior is observed in male more than female. there is also a meaningful negative relationship between cultural capital and risky behavior except for tendency toward violence . results showed that with rising the cultural level and the society cultural capital, specially for the objective and characteristic cultural capital trough enhancement in the level of study, internet usage and learning foreign languages and endeavor to get higher degrees in education, techniques and cultural and art licenses, we could expect to lower the level of risky behavior in youth and adolescents in the society and this can be helpful for corresponding undertakers. .