مدل پيشنهادي براي سنجش كيفيت زندگي: مطالعه موردي: شهر اصفهان

Towards a Proposed Model for Measuring Quality Of Life In Iran

Because of the extension of the industrialization process and technological progress which focus exclusively on the quantitative aspect of human life and following the lack of attention to the qualitative aspect of human life, in recent decades scientists of humanities in the West have paid attention to the concept of quality of life. In this vein, psychologists and later sociologists have tried to define and ascertain different indicators and dimensions constituting the concept. The presented paper, after defining the concept, attempts to design an experimental model for measuring different aspects of the concept and proposing a precise definition and an accurate method for measuring quality of life. In doing so, the data were collected through a survey using a questionnaire, which was distributed among 540 l S-year-old-and-above citizens of various districts of Isfahan. The following results were obtained: The mean of quality of life for citizens of Isfahan is 3.78 on a scale of 0 to 5, which can be interpreted as high. Also, when considering the relationship between quality of life and age or quality of life and sex, it became e1ear that there is no significant relationship between these variables. For marital status, however, it appeared that married citizens tend to have a higher quality of life in comparison with single ones.