Sense of Security and Its Related Factors

Societal and economic security is a basic pre-requisite of a sustained and balanced development in a community. On one hand lack of such a feeling may apparently decline the dynamic forces of a given society, and on the other it may boost social costs of the society without making an improvement in welfare of that society. This research aims at studying the sense of security among Tehran’s citizens and the factors affecting such a sense among them. As a survey research, this study used organized interviews with 384 persons via cluster sampling. Societal sense of security is comprised of four main aspects: physical, financial, intellectual and collective. Findings showed that the over 90 percent of Tehran’s citizens have average to low societal sense of security. From the aforesaid four aspects, social, financial and physical security had higher average rate than intellectual and collective security. There is meaningful relationship between social-economic status, social confidence and inclination to participation with social security. Also, the value of R2 was calculated to be 0.258 which indicated that these variables can explain only 25.8 percent of changes. Also social-economic status and social trust were found to have the highest rate of influence on social security.