Comparative study of factors affecting the sense of security among people in Hamedan and Yasouj cities

The factors affecting security in modern times have changed. This research investigates the factors affecting social security in Yasouj and Hamadan.  Results show that social trust and religiosity are the most influential factors. The hypothesis is analyzed using a multivariate regression model and among the sample of 750 individuals aged 18 years and over, the following results are included: In the study of security dimensions, feeling political security and feeling of security in the city in Hamadan, is more than that of Yasouj. But feeling the economic security and sense of physical security in the city in Yasouj is more than that of Hamadan. The relationship between religiosity and political security, security in the city and economic security in both cities was confirmed, the relationship of generalized trust with political and economic security was confirmed in both cities too, and shows a stronger relationship in Hamadan. Trusting official authorities in Yasouj with all four dimensions of social security feeling has made a meaningful relationship. The relationship of trust with unofficial authorities with all aspects of security in Yasouj is meaningful but in Hamadan, the relationship between politics and security in the city is very weak. The relationship between trus  in friends and feeling of security in the city is significant in Yasouj, but in Hamadan, this kind of trust is significant only in terms of the sense of security in the city and politics, and this relationship is weaker in Hamadan. The relationship between trust in friends and feeling of economic-political dimension and in the city security is significant in Yasouj, but in Hamadan this kind of trust is significant only in terms of the sense of security in the city and politics, and this relationship is weaker in Hamadan.