Cultural capital and youth happiness

Happiness produces motivate and mobility in the life of the youth. Also it can play an accelerating role on the process of society’s development. Thus, with the regard of importance of happiness in the life of young people, this study aims to examine relationships of cultural capital and its dimensions with happiness. Using a combined theoretical framework by focusing on Bourdieu’s theories.Survey is our research method. Data was collected through questionnaires distributed among 380 people residing in Babolsar city who were selected through random sampling. Findings based on Pierson tests; show that there is a direct correlation between independent variable of cultural capital and its dimensions with youth' happiness. Among the dimensions, the most influenced variable on happiness is Objectified cultural capital and the lest is Institutionalized cultural capital. Demographic variables such gender, age and marital status have no correlation with happiness and among them only education and social_ economic status have significant relationship with dependent variables. Findings on multiple regression technique show that objectified cultural capital, education and social_ economic status account for 11 percent of happiness variance in population.