فصلنامه برنامه ریزی رفاه و توسعه اجتماعی
پیاپی 3 (تابستان 1389)

Present research deals with investigation of a key issue in each society; feeling social happiness. Feeling happiness is based on person's attitude and perceptions and expresses the condition that is emerged from experience of positive emotions and satisfaction of life. Using two methods of documentary and survey, present research is kind of co relational researches. Regarding this in the theoretical section, there is a review of books, journals and previous researches and in the other part in order to evaluate the amount of happiness and effective factors on it, questionnaire's technique was used for the sample of 2000 residents (15 up to 65 years old) of urban and rural areas of Markazi province.Findings show that feeling of happiness among 18.5 percent of respondent is low and very low, whereas 19.5 percent of respondents have high feeling of happiness. Results show that 62 percent have evaluated their feeling of happiness in average degree. Due to the model of path analysis, among determinate factors of social happiness,, hope to future has been entered to equation as the first variable. The regression's coefficient of this variable on variable of social happiness is 0.32 and is known as the most important influential variable on social happiness. Other variables are feeling of social acceptability (with coefficient of 0.28), satisfaction of emotional needs (with coefficient of 0.26) aging (with coefficient of-0.08), feeling of distributive justice(with coefficient of 0.07), suitable atmosphere of public morality (with coefficient of 0.06), lack of derivational feeling (0.05) feeling of security (with coefficient of 0.05) and devotion to religious values (with coefficient of 0.11). As a whole mentioned variables have been able to determine 0.55 percent of changes or variance of social happiness

Regarding the fact that the youth are considered as active forces of society and play a key role in the development of a country; one of the issues which is discussed in today studies regarding youth, is their mental health. Hence in order to corroborate the factors improving health, studying the effective factors of their mental health is crucial. Since social support is considered as one of the most important effective factors in mental health, the objective of the present research is to studying the role of these supports in mental health of youth.The methodology is a combination of documentary and field study. In the field study, 320 young employees of Tehran municipality were selected by cluster sampling. Considering Katrona and Russel Social Support questionnaire and Goldberg Public Health Questionnaire, research questionnaire was constructed.Hypotheses related to the positive relation between social support and level of mental health is proved. The results also approved the negative and reverse relation among social support and depression, social function disorder, anxiety and insomnia and rejected the relation between social support and physical symptoms of mental health among youth. The hypothesis related to the extent of the mental health of youth from different socio-economic status is also verified. Meanwhile the results show that there is no meaningful relation between the extent of mental health and social support of youth in sight of their marital status.