Determinants of Social Health of Iranian Women Working in the Welfare Organization in 2021

Today, considering that social health has different effects at both the individual and family level and at the social level, paying attention to women's social health as the first family and community health caregivers is very important. Social health, a factor for evaluating and recognizing how a person performs socially, is influenced by several factors and has been studied in various studies from different angles. The aim of this study was to investigate the social health status of Iranian women working in Welfare Organizations and to analyze the social, economic, cultural, and contextual determinants affecting its indicators in 2021.

The statistical population was Iranian women working in the welfare organization. Using Cochran's formula, the study's sample size was 138 people. Consisting of 80 questions were answered. Quantitative research data using univariate t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, simple regression, and analysis of variance with SPSS software 25 items were analyzed.

The univariate t-test results show that most of the studied people have high social health. It claimed that the variable of patriarchal ideology, gender stereotypes in textbooks and mass media, and religiosity have a negative and significant relationship with all five dimensions of women's social health. The highest significant correlation is related to the relationship between patriarchal ideology and the dimension of social prosperity of social health, and the lowest significant correlation is related to the relationship between religiosity and the dimension of social cohesion. Also, it can be claimed that the variables of job rank, family social status, level of education and age of women, personal income, and amount of women's personal property has a positive and significant relationship with women's social health. The most significant correlation is related to the relationship between personal property and the social acceptance dimension of social health. The lowest correlation is related to the relationship between job rank and social adaptation. According to the analysis of variance, marital status, as a variable, has a significant relationship only with the social acceptance dimension of women's social health.