An evaluation of the quintuple relationship between alienation and life satisfaction (studied adualt Residents of Tehran)

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

Seyedeh Masoomeh Ghafouri kale ^{1 *} , Alireza Mohseni tabrizi ²

1 - Ph.D. Sociology of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2018-03-13 Accepted : 2018-04-20 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: &#039, Life satisfaction&#039, , &#039, Powerlessness&#039, , &#039, Normlessness&#039, , &#039, Meaninglessness&#039, , &#039, Social Isolation&#039, ,

Abstract :

Alienation, in its different aspects, is a social damage with various factors influencing on its emergence and its extensions. Life experience is a potential variable that can be assessed in the context. Thus, it has been attempted, in this paper, to address the sociological impacts of life satisfaction, in both individual and social levels, on aspects of alienation. Method applied for the research is surveying while the questionnaire has been used as the main technique to gather information. The statistical population of the research is consisted of adult citizens of Tehran (n=384). In this study, Seeman’s research has been applied in order to study alienation through its five aspects of powerlessness, normlessness, meaninglessness, social isolation and self-estrangement. Besides, life satisfaction has been studied in two levels of individual and social life satisfaction. According to the results, it established that from various forms of alienation, feeling of powerlessness has claimed the higher average among the studied population. It put an emphasis on a meaningful, inverse correlation between life satisfaction and all aspects of alienation, not least the connection between meaningless and life satisfaction that was higher than others (-0.57). Furthermore, among levels of life satisfaction, meaningless has the highest correlation with individual life satisfaction (-0.55), while normlessness claims higher solidarity with social life satisfaction among others (-0.37). In the field of underlying variables, a meaningful correlation was acquired between activity and life satisfaction. However there appeared no significant connection between other underlying variables and life satisfaction.