A Study on Social Factors Affecting Happiness of Youth in Tehran City

Happiness is one of the important concepts that has been developed in psychology and has been considered as an element of social development in sociology in recent years. Moreover, in our opinion, it is one of the critical issues in education system, too. This study is to investigate the social factors affecting the happiness of young in Tehran city. The sample consisted of 380 young in Tehran, which were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling using Cochran formula. Hypotheses have been examined by Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that the hope for the future, a sense of security, a sense of social acceptance, social trust, distributive justice, social activities, life satisfaction, purposefulness and happiness have significant positive relationship together. On the other hand, there was a significant negative relationship between relative deprivation, social alienation and happiness. On the other hand, these variables explained 69 percent of the variance of happiness and social acceptability with 0.84 co-efficient had the greatest impact on the dependent variable of happiness.