The Relation between Socioeconomic Status and Sense of Security among Married Women in Shiraz

The aim of this study is to investigate the relation between socioeconomic status with a sense of physical security، mental and psychological security، collective security and social security among married women in Shiraz. This is a social survey study. The statistical population was married women 25 to 50 years old living in Shiraz that 400 people were selected by using Cochrane formula and multi stage cluster sampling among the five districts of Shiraz. Data were gathered by questionnaire and were analyzed by using SPSS in two levels of descriptive and analytical which in addition to coding and entering data into the above mentioned program، were used types of bivariate and multivariate statistical methods. There is an inverse correlation between socioeconomic status and sense of physical and financial security among married women in Shiraz. There is a relation between socioeconomic status and sense of mental and psychological security and collective security. Finally، there is a relationship between socioeconomic status and sense of social security among married women in Shiraz. These relations were also stable with control of variables of sense of security in the residence location and its duration in Shiraz. But this relation has a reverse mode among the age group of 30 and less and there is no relation between the age group of 31 to 40 and 41 to 50. There is a significant positive relation between socioeconomic status with the sense of financial، physical security، mental and psychological security، collective security and social security among married women in Shiraz. But there is a reverse relation between two variables; i. e. Whatever the socioeconomic status of married women increased، the level of sense of financial-physical security decreased and vice versa. But whatever the socioeconomic status increased the level of sense of mental and psychological security and sense of collective security of married women in Shiraz also increased to a certain extent.