A Study of the Sense of Belonging to Iranian Society and its Influential Factors

The present paper attempted to measure the sense of belonging to the Iranian society and studied its influential factors. The social belonging variable was defined in two dimensions: emotional belonging and practical belonging. For this purpose, we selected 1016 people from the 22 regions of Tehran as our sample and distributed the researcher-made questionnaire to them. The research findings revealed that belongingness in Iranian society is at an average level and the variables of religious belonging, social trust, rationality, and socio-economic status have associations with the belongingness. They also demonstrated that the background variables such as educational level, age, and marital status are related to the dependent variable explained 0/325 changes in emotional belonging and 0/321 in practical belonging. We also realized that rationality and religious belongings had influenced social belonging differently.