The Youth Life Style in Tehran and its Determining Factors

• Main Authors: Bijan Zare, Mehdi Fallah
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Iranian Institute for Social and Cultural Studies 2013-03-01
• Series: Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān
• Subjects: Life Style; Aesthetical-Hedonistic life style; Functionalistic life style; Sub- Cultural life style; Passive life style
• Online Access: http://www.jicr.ir/article_269_5ffdacbeb1a6fb56b0ab813b96c85e7b.pdf

The goal of this research is on the one hand to identify various life styles of the youth living in Tehran and, on the other hand, to study several social, economic and cultural factors affecting the youth life styles. Based on Cookran formula, sample size amounts to 400, and cluster sampling was used as sampling method. Studying existing theories and reviewing empirical studies relevant to the research subject matter, various life styles such as aesthetical-hedonistic, functionalistic, sub-cultural, and passive ones were identified. According to the mean rates of various life styles, the hedonistic one enjoyed the highest rate, amounting to 53% of the sample population, the functionalistic one showed a moderate rate of 46.8 of the sample population, and the lowest rate belonged to the passive life style. Based on the person correlation coefficient, it could be said that there was a positive and meaningful relationship between social capital and various types of life styles. Also, a meaningful relationship of 0.01 existed between cultural capital and various types of life style. Moreover, person correlation coefficient confirms the meaningful and positive relationship between economic capital and functionalistic, hedonistic and passive life styles. Using step by step method in the multi-variable regression shows the economic variables contribution in explaining the life styles variable as to be as 0.31, the social ones as to 0.17, and cultural capital impact as to 0.16. In sum, taking into consideration R2 coefficient, the three mentioned variables explain 19% of the variance of the life style variable.