The Relation between Personal, Family, Social and Economic Factors With the Rate of Life Satisfaction of Aged people of Isfahan

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between personal, familial,social and economical factors with the level of life satisfaction of aged people of Isfahan.To achieve this end, from among 84912 elderly people above 65 living in the eleven districts of Isfahan in 1386 a sample of 384 was selected using cluster sampeling method and Kurjesy-Morgan formula.The research procedure was a descriptive survey in which a researcher,developed questionaire with 44 close ended questions was employed for data collection.The respandants provided their answers based on Lickerts five-point scale.The reliability values for the first 29 questions and subsequent 15questions on the questionaire were 0.84 and 0.88 respectively.The questions targeted not only demographic factors such as age, sex, educational and so on,but also research variables under investigation; namely, personal, familial,social and economical factors.The data was analayzed, at both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques.while the first accounted for percentage,frequency,median and mean values, the second enlisted pearson and spearman correlations,F,T and multiple regression tests. The finding revealed that the level of life satisfaction was positively correlated with social(r=0.652),economical(r=0.656), family (r=0.618), physical health (r=0.183) and individual independence (r=0.525).In addition there was no significant difference in life satisfaction of the elderly people in regard with marital status for the F-value of 4.516 at the confidence level of 0.001.