The Impact of Students' Presence in the Sports-Recreational Places of Parks on the Quality of Life through the Mediation ofSocio-Economic Status

The quality of life is one of the variables that it'sinvestigate is very important and it seems that the presence in thesports-recreational places of parks has an effective role on it.Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the impact ofstudents' presence in the sports-recreational places of parks on thequality of life through the mediation of socio-economic status.

This study was descriptive from type ofcorrelation. The research population was the students using thesports-recreational places of Tehran city parks in 2021-2022academic years. Among them, number of 450 students were selectedas samples by random cluster sampling method. The data werecollected by researcher-made questionnaire of students' presence inthe sports-recreational places of parks, quality of life inventory(Varni et al., 2001) and socio-economic status questionnaire(Ghodratnama et al., 2013) and were analyzed by the structuralequation modeling method in SPSS-25 and Smart PLS-3 software.

The findings showed that the model of students' presencein the sports-recreational places of parks on the quality of lifethrough the mediation of socio-economic status had a good fit. Also,the students' presence in the sports-recreational places of parks hada direct and significant effect on the quality of life and socioeconomic status and socio-economic status had a direct andsignificant effect on quality of life and the students' presence in thesports-recreational places of parks had an indirect and significanteffect on the quality of life through the mediation of the socioeconomic status (P<0.001).

The findings of the research indicated the direct effectof students' presence in the sports-recreational places of parks on thequality of life and its indirect effect through the mediation of socioeconomic status. Therefore, in order to improve students' quality oflife can provide the basis for improve their students' presence in thesports-recreational places of parks and socio-economic status.