Meta-Analysis of Lifestyle’s Studies in Iranian Research

Different domestic researches have used the concept of lifestyle by using different theoretical approaches and with different analytical purposes and have pointed out and used different types of lifestyles. This article aims to evaluate the lifestyle assessment in Iranian research and study the meta-analysis of this research. The research method is documentary and based on the use of meta-analysis method in order to analyze and combine the results of studies conducted on lifestyle. For this purpose, 31 studies conducted between the years of 2016-2017 in the field of lifestyle, which have been published in prestigious scientific journals, were selected for review. The selected research was conducted by survey method and using survey tools in different statistical communities according to stable criteria.  The results of this study suggest that the theories of Bourdieu, Giddens, Weblen, and Simmel were most used in Iranian research on lifestyle. In 31 articles reviewed, 31 species of lifestyles were found. However, modern demonstrative-consumer lifestyle has been used in most articles and has been used in contrast to traditional, quasi-traditional and religious lifestyle. Other widely used species include the global lifestyle versus the local lifestyle. The concept of lifestyle in domestic research has been removed to some extent from its theoretical basis and has been exploited as a neutral, practical and more general concept. On the other hand, the most widely used indicators for measuring the concept of lifestyle in the articles studied, including how to spend leisure time, preferences in choosing clothes, body management, orientation to religious practices, food preferences, cultural consumption, amount and form of social relations, musical preferences and tendency to They have been sports.