School, the Family, Healthy Life Style among High School Students in the City of Esfahan

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Mansour Haghighatian ¹

1 - Associate Professor

Received: 2018-02-13 Accepted : 2018-02-13 Published : 2017-11-22

Keywords: healthy life style, foreign media usage, parents’ socio-economic status, parents’ way of living, friends,

Abstract :

The life style of the adolescents has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. The wide-spread use of fast-foods, the problems and dangers of urban living and the resultant lack of physical activity, increasing usage of the media and gaining familiarity with the cultures of different countries, and so forth, have led to vast changes in consumption behaviors and life styles of the young. Utilizing the ideas of scholars such as Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens, this article aims to investigate the effects of variables such as teacher’s behaviors, academic materials, and parents’ way of living, foreign media usage (namely the internet and satellite TV), parents’ socio-economic status, and friends on students’ healthy life style. The research population consisted of all male and female high school students of the city of Isfahan of which, using Cochran's formula, and 385 individuals are chosen as the sample. The results show that the mean score of healthy life style of the students was 2.4 out of 5 which is below the medium level. Statistical analysis results show that foreign media usage, parent's socio-economic status, and parent's way of living had more influence on students’ health-oriented life style.

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