A Study of the Relationship among Fars Shahed and Esargar High School Students’ Quality of Life, Self-esteem, Locus of Control, Stress and Social Capital
Subject Areas : Education
A.R GHasemzad
1
(استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کازرون)
حسین Berenjiyan
2
(مربی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کازرون)
M.R Abedi
3
(مربی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کازرون)
ام البنین Barzideh
4
(مربی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کازرون)
Keywords: Quality of life, Locus of Control, Self-esteem, Stress and social capital,
Abstract :
The main goal of this study was to investigate the interrelationships among quality of life, self-esteem, locus of control, stress and social capital of Shahed and Esargar high school students of Fars. A total of 296 students (248 regular and 248 Shahed and Esargar high school students) were selected from Shiraz, Kazerun and Marvdasht high schools employing stage cluster sampling. A use was made of Cronbach’s alpha to establish the reliability of the instruments used in the study. A use was also made of item analysis and experts’ consensus to evaluate their validity. The results of the study revealed that roughly 60% of Shahed and Esargar students had a moderate quality of life and only 15.6% of them had a low quality of life. Independent t-test indicated that there was no significant difference between the life quality of regular and Shahed and Esargar high school students. Pearson correlation suggested that there was a positive relationship among Shahed and Esargar high school students’ quality of life, self esteem, locus of control and social capital. However, there was a negative relationship between their quality of life and stress (p<.05). Multiple regression analyses also showed that among these variables locus of control predicted approximately 36% of the variance in Shahed and Esargar high school students’ quality of life.