A comparative study of workers' lifestyle components (Case study: Tehran Municipality bus workers).

To understand how a particular society, such as the working class, lives, how they look at the world, how they choose among the opportunities around them, one must study the field of lifestyle. The purpose of this study was to study the effective factors in the life style of workers. For the theoretical framework, the theories of lifestyle and the theories of Mannheim and Bourdieu have been used. The statistical population is the workers working in Tehran bus companies in 2017. The sample size of the statistical population is 366 people. The validity of the present questionnaire is of the content type and its structural validity is done by structural equations, the reliability of the research tool has Cronbach's alpha above 0.7.Descriptive statistics and inferential tests have been used to analyze the research. Findings of this study show that the scores of cultural consumption factors, body management and material consumption are significantly different from the sex of workers. The highest mean scores of influential factors in lifestyle are related to the component of political behavior in men and the component of body management in women. The order of management is body (12.6%), political behavior (6%), leisure activity (0.8%) and cultural consumption (0.6%).The highest change in the variance of scores among workers with the age of 30 to 40 years is in the component of political behavior and the lowest mean score of workers in the decade of 51-60 years is in the component of material consumption. To make younger workers more familiar with leisure and material issues, and to make older workers aware of political behaviors.