Saeed Soltani; Davoud Qasemzadeh
Abstract
Today, happiness is one of the most important indicators of mental health in society and is one of the basic concepts and components in the lives of young people. In this study, the study of happiness from a sociological perspective has been considered and capital factors (social, cultural and economic ...
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Today, happiness is one of the most important indicators of mental health in society and is one of the basic concepts and components in the lives of young people. In this study, the study of happiness from a sociological perspective has been considered and capital factors (social, cultural and economic capital) and non-capital factors (hope for the future, religiosity and life satisfaction) have been examined in relation to it. The present study was conducted by survey method and its statistical population is young people aged 15 to 29 years in East Azerbaijan province, that 613 of whom were selected using the Cochran's formula and multi-stage cluster sampling. Findings show that the average happiness among the studied youth is 60.31%, which shows that happiness has a moderate to high status among the youth . The results of the test of hypotheses show that the mean of happiness did not differ by gender and marital status, but by the level of education of young people, city of residence, employment status had had significant relationship. Happiness is also positively and significantly associated with the hope for the future, religiosity, life satisfaction, social and economic capital. The results of regression analysis show that, among the variables , variables of hope for the future, social and cultural capital, life satisfaction and economic capital explain 43% of the variance of happiness.
