A Study of Social and Psychological Factors Affecting Feeling Lonely (Case Study: Tehran Citizens)

Among the social issues that with the advent of the modern age has overtaken the human society and has attracted the attention of many researchers, is concern about degradation of social communication, the weakening of the ties and the development of the phenomenon of feeling lonely; a phenomenon that caused by the fluidity of social relations in contemporary society. The aim of this study is to evaluate social and psychological factors affecting the loneliness among Tehran citizens. The method used in this study is survey, and the statistical society are all citizens over 18 of Tehran metropolis. A sample of 524 people from them were selected according to Cochran formula and multi-stage cluster sampling were selected for the study and statistical data were evaluated descriptively and analytically by using spss16 software. Findings showed that the average prevalence of feeling lonely (Range 0-100) in the population under study was 36/13, and half of the citizens at moderate downward level, 30/6% at moderate level and 6/6% at high and moderate to high level experiences feeling lonely in their Everyday life. Analytical results also showed that variables of religiosity, social support, mental health and life satisfaction have Significant and negative relation and social isolation variable have significant and Positive relation with feeling lonely. Also Social support variables has highest level of direct and pure impact on feeling lonely.