Sociological factors Affecting happiness with an emphasis on feeling of social security Case of study: the city of Kerman, Iran

Nowadays the progress of any society depends on the efficient use of human resources and one of the most important principles in the field of urban management is the attention to citizen's happiness .The present article intends to study the level of and sociological factors affecting happiness among the residents of the city of Kerman who are older-than-18 years old. Social factors included feeling of social security, social capital, social identity, and social anomie. Considering the nature of variables and the relationships among them, the research method is correlational descriptive. Research population consists of all citizens in Kerman who were older than 18years old which numbered 508984 citizens. 384 individuals were selected as the sample through multistage clustering sampling method. OHI was administered where the reliability and validity were reported 0.917 and 0.876 for this researcher-made questionnaire, respectively. Findings indicate that happiness level is in medium level among the respondents. Regression analysis results showed that variables feeling of social security, social capital, social identity, age, and income together could explain 39 per cent of the variance of happiness. Among independent variables, the variable of social security had the highest score. Although other variables were directly and indirectly related to happiness, but they were related to the feeling of social security in complex ways.