Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Social Work, Department of Sociology and Social Planning, Shiraz University
2 Department of Sociology and Social Planning, Shiraz University/Shiraz/Iran
3 Associate Professor of Demography, Department of Sociology and Social Planning, Shiraz University
Abstract
The subjective well-being of immigrants in the host society and what factors affect it, including social exclusion, is one of the basic problems of social sciences in recent years. Subjective well-being refers to people's emotions, perceptions, cognitions, and life experiences of each person. The study examines the relationship between perceived social exclusion and subjective well-being.
This research has been done by survey method. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire administered to a sample of 380 Afghan immigrants 15-59 years old, living in Shiraz, who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling.
It was observed that in general, the subjective well-being of immigrants has been moderate to high and the rate of social exclusion in this study was moderate. The correlation test revealed that greater feelings of social exclusion and poor subjective well-being are associated and vice versa. Further, the result showed that social exclusion and its two dimensions of social participation and material deprivation were significant predictors of the outcome variable on subjective well-being.
The perceived social exclusion in the host society is related to immigrants' assessment of their present and future lives. In order to reduce the feeling of being neglected and increase the sense of well-being in the immigrants' communities, designing community-based interventions to solve the mental health and social health issues is mandatory.
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