The Relation between Personal, Family, Social and Economic Factors With the

AbstractThe present study aimed to investigate the relationship between personal, familial,social and economical factorswith the level of life satisfaction of aged people of Isfahan.To achieve this end ,from among 84912 elderlypeople above 65 living in the eleven districts of Isfahan in 1386 a sample of 384 was selected using clustersampeling method and Kurjesy-Morgan formula.The research procedure was a descriptive survey in which aresearcher,developed questionaire with 44 close ended questions was employed for data collection.Therespandants provided their answers based on Lickerts five-point scale.The reliability values for the first 29questions and subsequent 15questions on the questionaire were 0.84 and 0.88 respectively.The questionstargeted not only demographic factors such as age ,sex ,educational and so on,but also research variablesunder investigation ; namely, personal, familial,social and economical factors.The data was analayzed, at bothdescriptive and inferential statistical techniques.while the first accounted forpercentage,frequency,median and mean values, the second enlisted pearson and spearman correlations,F,Tand multiple regression tests .The finding revealed that the level of life satisfaction was positivelycorrelated with social(r=0.652),economical(r=0.656), family (r=0.618), physical health (r=0.183) andindividual independence (r=0.525).In addition there was no significant difference in life satisfaction of theelderly people in regard with marital status for the F-value of 4.516 at the confidence level of 0.001