Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Cultural Consumption in Iran

Cultural consumption is a social activity and daily behavior, and culture is produced or fertilized by these actions. Cultural consumption organizes our lifestyle and the shape of our needs and desires, and provides the necessary materials for creating our imaginations and dreams. It shows social differences and distinctions and shows our secondary products in using existing tools. In recent years, considering the importance of cultural consumption in Iran, several studies have been conducted in this regard. Due to the abundance and diversity of research conducted in the field of cultural consumption, a combination of research in this area like a meta-analysis seems to be necessary. The main question of this research is: What are the most important factors affecting cultural consumption research conducted in Iran? Meta-analysis method was used for this study. Population of the study consisted scientific papers on the factors of cultural consumption, published between 2001 and 2021. Comprehensive Meta-analysis software was used to conduct the meta-analysis of articles. The results showed that Socio-Economic Status (SES), cultural capital, age, and social relations, compared to other factors, had more significant impact on cultural consumption in Iran. The results showed that the relationship between SES and cultural consumption in the reviewed studies is positive and at a medium level (effect size=0.37). The relationship between cultural capital and cultural consumption in the studies reviewed is positive and at medium level (effect size=0.32). Results showed that the combined effects of the relationship between age and cultural consumption in the reviewed studies is negative and low (0.26).