Investigating social wellbeing among women using Keyes and Larson's theories

The article investigates social wellbeing among women using Keyes and Larson’s theories. Social integration, social acceptance, social contribution, social actualization and social coherence dimensions from Keyes and social support and social adjustment from Larson’s frame are extracted. The research uses survey methods. Research census is women in city of Kashan.The work integrates theory and intersectionality perspectives to examine how discrimination affects health at the intersections of gender and city Confirmatory factor analysis shows fitness of Keyes model and explanatory factor analysis demonstrates that Larson’s model is also fit. Chi-square test among social wellbeing and marital status and income is significant, between social wellbeing and education isn’t significant and between social wellbeing and education depends on which of models is used (Larson’s model is significant, but Keyes’s is not). Findings revealed that total sample and multiple group path and confirmatory factor analysis had good fits. Findings underscore the importance of taking into account how multiple identities shape discrimination, social status and social health; they highlight the multiple pathways linking discrimination to health for different Kurd ethnicity subgroupsSecondly, this research examines how religion, gender and city together moderate relations in the overall proposed model.Findings underscore the importance of taking into account how multiple identities shape discrimination, social status and social health; they highlight the multiple pathways linking discrimination to health for different Kurd ethnicity subgroups.