Provide a Model for Measuring the Factors Affecting the Promote Social Health
Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies
1 - Psychology Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Keywords: social health, identify factors affecting, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis,
Abstract :
Background and Aim: Indeed the development of health promotion programs in the community would result in ineffective solutions if social and cultural backgrounds are not considered. Therefore, this study was conducted to provide a model for measuring the factors affecting social health.method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of nature is a descriptive-analytic method. The statistical population were the Persons over 20 year’s resident of Lorestan province, equal to 1072186 people. According to Cochran formula, 395 people were selected as multistage random sampling method. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the literature and background of the research. In its construction, the views of experts and also specialists in the field of education and research have been used. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis using SPSS software (PLS) was used for data analysis.Findings and Conclusion: Principal components analysis using varimax rotation yielded a six-factor solution of "believe factors", "socio-economic", "political" "well-being-cultural", "demographic" and "geographical-communication" that jointly accounted for 61.43 percent of the total variance. The next step to explain the concept, confirmatory factor analysis was performed. The results showed Factors affecting the promotion of social health building from six construct latent. Friedman test was used to rank the effective factors, which means "believe factors, socio-economic, well-being-cultural, political, geographical-communication and demographic", respectively, are effective on social health. According to the results, it is suggested that in order to promote social health in adults, believe factors, socio-economic and well-being-cultural factors should be considered.
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