Youth Social Health and Islam Education (Case Study: Tehran City)

An aspect of social health relates to Individual dimension of social health which substantially considers human as a social organism. Derived theories of this domain related to quality of nature, fate and temperament of human; these theories have great differences and paradoxes to Islam perspective. Present study designed to investigate psychometric properties of individual dimension of social health questionnaire and also to evaluate individual dimension of social health in Tehran citizens.The present study is an applied and ex post facto research. 962 subjects were selected by systematic categorical randomized sampling and recruited data was analyzed by exploratory factor analysis.Chronbach’s alpha of the individual dimension of social health based on Islam education is 0.96, and the questionnaire account for 59 percent of variance of individual dimension of social health of the sample. Results of exploratory factor analysis indicate that individual dimension of social health consist of 2 principle factor: A) Components of divine intentions, faith, lack of grandeur, solving problems of social communications, humorness, visiting relatives, and marriage. b) Components of avoiding tendering of others, advising to benevolence and preventing inappropriate behaviors, and avoiding inferiority and blaming others. Results of the study show significant differences between the male, single and jobless subjects than their counterparts in respect to individual dimension of social health.Results indicate that there is difference between Islam expected perspective and present individual dimension of social health. Healthy patterns of life style consistent with Islam education is one of the primary preferences of health system in universal scientific plan of Iran. Thus, a necessary issue of health system in providing strategies and programs would be relate to social health concept based on Islam education.