Investigating the Impact of Social and Cultural Services of the State Pension Fund on the Quality of Life of Retirees in West Azerbaijan Province

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of social and cultural services of the State Pension Fund on the status of quality of life indicators of retirees in West Azerbaijan province. The research method in this study was a correlational survey. The statistical population of the study was all retirees of West Azerbaijan province in 2021. Using Cochran's sampling volume formula, 384 retirees were selected as a statistical sample by simple random sampling and a questionnaire was distributed among them. Data were collected using a researcher-made social and cultural services questionnaire and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (1991) and analyzed using SPSS software and descriptive and inferential tests. The results of hypotheses using correlation tests showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between social and cultural services of the State Pension Fund and their components with the quality of life of retirees (P <0.05). Also, the results of multivariate regression analysis showed that the social and cultural services of the State Pension Fund predict the quality of life of retirees in West Azerbaijan Province.