Relationship between Religiosity, Socioeconomic Status with Life Satisfaction: with Mediating Mental Health Components

The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting life satisfaction in Tabriz university students, considering endogenous and exogenous variables such as socioeconomic status (SES), Religiosity and Mental health components. Therefore the 495 students (246 women, 249 man) completed the religiosity, mental health, lifesatisfaction and demographic questionnaires. Data were analyzed by path analysis with LISREL package. The results indicated that direct effect of religiosity on mental health components and life satisfaction was significant. Also the direct effect of anxiety, depression, and social function on life satisfaction was significant and the direct effectof SES on indogenous variables (mental health component and life satisfaction) except anxiety was not significant, also the relationship between somatic symptoms with life satisfaction and religiosity with somatic symptoms was not significant. From the indirect routes only religiosity path to life satisfaction with 0.95 probabilities was significant. This means that religiosity through effects on anxiety, depression, somatic symptoms, social function, effects on life satisfaction. The life satisfaction variance explanted by the predictor variables is %23, that is significant.