Investigating the relationship between social health and electoral behavior of women in Ahvaz

Women, as part of the human capital of any society, can play a decisive role in governing the country through their political participation, and therefore, paying attention to their electoral behavior is an important issue. Given the importance of discussing women's electoral behavior, the present study seeks to answer the main question of whether there is a difference between different dimensions of social health and Is there a connection between the electoral behavior of women in Ahvaz? The statistical population of the present study is women 18 years and older in Ahvaz, of which 384 have been studied as a sample size.The results show that between social health (0.35) social and its dimensions, ie social correlation (0.38), social participation (0.41), social cohesion (0.30), social acceptance (0.27) And social self-fulfillment (0.35) has a positive, direct and significant relationship with women's electoral behavior. Therefore, all research hypotheses are confirmed. The results of structural equation model (Smart PLS) also showed that the social health variable explains a total of 0.55 of the variance of the variable of women's electoral behavior, taking into account the values ​​of the volume of the effect of the coefficient of determination of this value to the average (0.30) is estimated.