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Objective: Nowadays, happiness has had a considerable importance in a way that has become as one of indexes for improving the societies. when we study the relatioship between students, as the most active and agile class of society, it’s importance becomes twice. Therefore, in this research we try to study the amount of happpiness and the related factors among University of Tabriz students.

 

Method: The methodology is survey and the population includes the whole students in Tabriz Univrsity in 1389-1390 who were 24000. We choose 378 students as sample hhrough Kookran Formula and stratified random sampling method. The data were analyzed through SPSS 17 software.

 

Findings: The Findings of study show that social capital, econmical capital and cultural capitals have a direct and meaningful relatiuoship with student’s happiness. The results of regresssion also show that dependent variable, happiness, much more than the other variables has been affected by social trust. In addition , we can refer to social participation, social conformity and cultural capital which have the most affect in explaining the dependent variable. It should be mentioned that the variables entered to model could explain 39% of variance in dependent variable.

 Discussion: Based on our results we can say that among the types of Capitals, social capital has the greatest role in explaining the happiness of students and Among the three dimensions of social capital, social cohesion compared to the other dimensions, it has more impact on student happiness, also Impact on happiness than economic capital is cultural capital and Economic capital is less effective in explaining the variance in happiness. All we can say that To enhance the happiness of students, social and cultural capital dimands is an important component of economic capital dimands

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Interdiction: Being happy is a response to how to live, especially for the young people who build the future of this land. Happiness produces passion, emotion, motivation, seeking and effort in the youth life and that’s the necessity of happiness. So, this study aims to examine relationships of social capital and its dimensions with happiness of young people.

 

Method: The method of research is survey. 380 individuals among the 15-29 year old residents in Babolsar city are the sample size. Data gathered through two kinds of questionnaires (modified Oxford happiness questionnaire and made of researcher social capital questionnaire).

 

Finding: Findings based on Pierson tests show that there is a direct correlation between independent variable of social capital and its dimensions with youth' happiness. Also, the most correlation of happiness is with social relation and the least is with formal participation.

 

Conclusion: The results of this research show that among the three dimensions of social capital, social relation and social trust along side with variable of economic-social status account for 25 percent of happiness.

 

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Introduction: With regard to functions of religion in producing meaning and encouraging positive attitudes in life, present research investigates the relationship between religiosity and religion among people with physical disability in Tehran Hospices.

Method: This study has been done by survey and correlation design and questionnaires AL port’s religiosity and Oxford’s happiness among 248 persons People with Physical Disability in Tehran Hospices.

Findings: There is a strong correlation between intrinsic religiosity and extrinsic religiosity with happiness. In addition, this relationship is stronger in intrinsic religiosity with happiness than extrinsic religiosity.

Discussion: Although religiosity with producing knowledge about life and giving meaning in life, will provide proper framework for happiness of people with physical disability, but this relationship isn't linear and various possible mediators have effect on its that this relationship must be investigated separately.

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Introduction: Quality of life has always been a key concept and humans sought to find the factors and methods that would guide him towards a good life. According to a NUMBEO report, in 2015, regarding the quality of life index, Tehran rank was 106  compared to other cities from 113 countries. This rank indicates a low quality of life in Iran. Quality of life is a dynamic concept and changes over time. The evaluation  of this concept illustrates the state of human development in a society. Therefore, a continuous examination of the quality of life is essential. In this study, we try to examine the effect of socioeconomic factors affecting the quality of life of citizens of Tehran. Therefore, variables such as social support, feeling of relative deprivation, social happiness and socioeconomic status were considered as independent variables.
Method: The present study was of descriptive–casual type. The research method was survey. Statistical population included all the resident families in Tehran in 2015. The data were collected by  questionnaires and  interviews, the survey was carried out among 420 people in three regions of north, south and center of Tehran (140 samples per region). . To measure the quality of life, the Global Quality of Life Questionnaire was used. Data were analyzed by SPSS software. The tests used to analyze the findings included Pearson correlation test, regression test, path analysis and model review.
Findings:  The age average of respondents was young. More than half of the respondents had a moderate quality of life. In the mental dimension of quality of life, one of the most important results was that more than half of the respondents needed medical treatment for their daily activities. In the objective dimension of quality of life, most respondents assessed the health of their surroundings low. Most of the respondents had low social support, a moderate feeling of relative  deprivation, moderate social happiness, and moderate social economic status. Research findings suggest that social happiness, social support, feeling of relative deprivation and socio-economic status variables effect on more than half of the quality of life changes. Social happiness has the greatest impact on quality of life.
Discussion: The social happiness variable is influenced by the feeling of relative deprivation and social support, and the social economic status variable is also influenced by the feeling of relative deprivation.
The variables affecting quality of life, respectively, with the highest impact, are: social happiness, relative deprivation, and socioeconomic status. Therefore, it can be said that the proper quality of life is created by the feeling of happiness, the lower  feeling of relative deprivation, the higher socioeconomic status and the support that a person receives from his family, friends and acquaintances. Regarding the effectiveness of independent variables (social happiness, the feeling of relative deprivation, economic and social status and social support) in increasing the quality of life of citizens of Tehran, with high explanatory factors and the relationship of independent variables together, addressing all of them requires deep attention and review which should be at the top of social and economic programs of the community. Since Tehran as a metropolis has a large population, the findings of this research can be partially generalized to other metropolises of our country. Thus, the results of the research, which emphasize on two social and economic dimensions, will improve the conditions of the community and improve the quality of life of the people.

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Abstract :
One of the most important goals of today’s societies is to achieve a happy society. In this regard, government expenditures and the amount of government intervention in the economy can affect the level of happiness of the society. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to examine the effect of government size on happiness in selected developing and developed countries using the threshold panel model over the period of 2005-2016. The results of the estimation models showed that the government size has a nonlinear effect on happiness in both the developing and developed countries, but how governments influence happiness in these two categories of countries was different. In both the developing and developed countries, the size of the government in the small states did not have a significant impact on happiness, but in a large government, the size of the government had a negative impact on happiness in developing countries and it had a positive impact on happiness in developed countries. The difference in the effects of government size on happiness in both developing and developed countries shows that government policies in developed countries are more effective in increasing happiness in society compared to developing countries.
 

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Introduction: Achieving higher levels of happiness is one of the major goals of economists. In addition to achieving higher levels of happiness, reducing the inequality of happiness is also important. Reducing inequalities, including inequality of happiness, is one of the important goals of economic policy makers in today’s world. Meanwhile, the link between oil revenues and inequality of happiness in oil-exporting countries is a major issue that has been little addressed.
Method: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the rent of oil revenues affect happiness inequality as well as testing the hypothesis of resource curse and the threshold effect of oil rent on the happiness inequality in the OPEC countries during the period of 2005-2012. For this purpose, using theoretical literature and applying the threshold panel method, the factors influencing happiness inequality have been modeled.
Findings: The results of model estimation have shown that the effect of oil rent on happiness inequality is nonlinear and threshold which means before the threshold of 17.7% of the ratio of oil rent to GDP, this variable has a significant negative impact on happiness inequality but after crossing this threshold value, the ratio of oil rent to GDP has not had a significant effect on the happiness inequality in the OPEC countries.
Discussion: Based on the results of this study, it is suggested that policymakers in the OPEC countries pay more oil resources to reduce inequalities including reduce happiness inequality by creating opportunities for happiness for all deciles of society.

 

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Introduction: Although the use of the happiness economy approach does not have much history, since policy makers generally make decisions in the direction of increasing well-being and public satisfaction, it becomes important to quantify the concept of mental well-being and examine the factors affecting it in order to improve happiness in society.
Methods: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of government size on people's happiness in two different regimes according to the level of human development in 110 selected countries for the period of 2006 to 2017. For this purpose, threshold panel regression has been used. The information needed for this research includes the happiness variable from the World Happiness Information Bank, economic growth rate, unemployment rate, inflation rate and government size from the World Bank database and human development index from the United Nations Development Program.
Findings: The model estimation results show that the variables of government size, economic growth, inflation and unemployment have a significant effect on happiness. According to the threshold limit calculated for the human development variable (0.577), the effect of government size on happiness is different in two regimes.
Discussion: According to the findings of the research, increasing the size of the government below the threshold of human development leads to a decrease in the happiness of the people of the society, but after crossing the threshold of human development with the increase in the size of the government, the happiness of the people increases, which shows the efficiency of the government policies. Also, with the increase in economic growth, happiness increases and with the increase in inflation and unemployment, happiness decreases, and the noteworthy point is that the negative effect of unemployment is greater than the negative effect of inflation.

 

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Introduction: Joy and cheerfulness is the missing thing of contemporary man and the common desire of all people. Man is a purposeful being who seeks joy, happiness, and prosperity, and he does not feel joy, happiness, and prosperity until he achieves what he wants. The cheerfulness is one of the factors affecting economic, social, cultural, and political development and promotes sustainable development.
Methods: The present study was conducted with a phenomenological social approach and with the aim of examining psychologists' experiences of social vitality. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 16 psychologists with PhD degrees and at least five years of teaching experience in the academic level.
Findings:  Smith's phenomenological method was used to analyze the data, during which eight main themes and 46 sub-themes were extracted from the data.
Discussion: The results showed that in some sub-themes such as the definition of social vitality, consequences, obstacles, and causes, there is some alignment between the views of psychologists and the background; However, there are different results in the solutions. Psychologists, based on their psychological perspectives and experiences, have proposed various solutions for parents and organizations at the micro and macro levels. For example, their proposed solutions include not politicizing social vitality, careful selection of officials and meritocracy, reducing the distance between social classes, organizing the economic situation, having a scientific view on the issue of social vitality and several other strategies. The results of this study will pave the way for further research in the field of interventions related to social vitality.
 

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Method: The present research is based on the meta-analysis method. The materials of this research consists of all the scientific research studies conducted in Iran regarding the relationship between religiosity and happiness during the years 2008 to 2021, which is indexed in one of the scientific databases such as scientific information databases (Sid), Noor specialized journal website (Noormags), Information database of Iran’s publication (Magiran) and Iranian research institute for information science and technology (Irandoc). Among the 29 research documents that were found, seven research studies met the conditions and selection criteria and entered the comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA) software.
Findings: In the first step, publication bias and homogeneity of studies were examined. The statistical tests used in this section indicate the lack of publication bias and the heterogeneity of the studies. In the next step, the effect size of religiosity on happiness was evaluated and was found to be 0.277, which according to Cohen’s interpretation system is regarded as “small”. The sensitivity analysis test shows that by removing only one of the studies, the effect size of religiosity on happiness changes to 0.303, which is evaluated as “moderate” based on Cohen’s interpretation system.
Discussion: The findings show that although religiosity provides a suitable basis for happiness through giving coherence, giving hope, giving meaning to life, etc. however, the relationship between religiosity and happiness is not linear and causal, and several possible mediating factors affect it, and the effect of these relationships should also be examined separately.
 

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Introduction: Children’s happiness is influenced by family relationships. Children’s daily interactions with their parents are now seen as a factor in their development. At the same time, the family is considered the most important field for children’s growth. The aim of the current research is to study the strategies of women who are the head of the household and non-head of the household in creating happiness in the family environment.
Method: The present research method was qualitative and thematic analysis. Also, data was collected with 40 semi-structured interviews in Yazd city; 20 of the sample women was non-headed and 20 were female heads of the household. Also, targeted sampling with maximum variety was done. After collecting the data, coding was done with six steps of thematic analysis.The results showed that non-custodial women experienced the three final themes of affectionate parenting, self-satisfaction and holistic femininity.
Findings: Meanwhile, the female heads of the household had experienced the two final themes under the title of overall happiness and failure in happiness. As a matter of fact, female guardians try beyond their ability to meet the all-round needs of their children to create happiness in the family. According to the collected data, non-custodial women acted stronger in creating happiness in the family environment despite having a husband. But the female head of the household had to fill in the absence of the wife and sometimes she was unsuccessful in creating happiness.
Discussion: It is concluded that the happiness of women and family can strengthen the morale in the family environment and subsequently promote the motivation of growth and development because happiness, as one of the dimensions of social development, is considered important to achieve the development of society.