social health

Recent statistics showed that larger number of Iranian girls are being pushed to the state of absolute celibacy. This is in clear contrast with social, cultural and religious values in the country; therefore, it has made serious concerns for both policy makers and the public. The present study aimed to a) explore why do girls prefer to stay unmarried and what their perception and feeling is in regard to marriage and b) investigate the social adjustment of these girls as a significant facet of mental and social health . An open-ended questionnaire was used for the first aim and Bell Adjustment Inventory (Bell, 1962) was applied on 40 girls with absolute celibacy and 40 married . The two groups were matched in demographic features and the findings , which are all discussed in Iranina society along with its existed values, showed that remaining celibacy is an undesirable status occurred mainly due to not finding and the right person. The other contributing reasons leading to girls’ celibacy are their imaginary and sort of perfectionistic attitude about their future partner, family’s arrangements and interferences, financial limitations and physical attractions. The statistical results indicated that girls with absolute celibacy scored less in total adjustment score and two of the subscales of adjustment at home and social adjustment.

Purpose: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between social health and the usage of social networks among the parents of female students in Baharestan. Methodology: For this purpose, 370 parents (172 males and 198 females) were selected randomly through cluster sampling based on kerjeci & Morgan's table. Then, the social health questionnaire developed by Keyes and Shapiro (2004) and social networks using questionnaire which is a researcher-made questionnaire was completed. Findings: The results of convergent and divergent validity, composite reliability, Cronbach's alpha, average variance extracted, factor analysis, Stone-Geisser's criterion, goodness of fit, and independent t-test revealed that there was a significant relationship between all the components of social health (i.e. social integration, social coherence, social actualization, social acceptance, and social contribution) and the usage of social networks. Accordingly, social health explains 42% of the usage of social networks. As regards the components, the percentages are social integration (86%), social coherence (52%), social actualization (25%), social acceptance (44%), and social contribution (36%). In addition, no significant relationship was found between gender and usage. There was a positive and significant relationship between virtual social network and the components of physical health and general health scales, physical function, physical role, and physical pain. Social health refers to how a person's relationship is with others in a society is, or to his socialization. Conclusion: social health is one of the three components (plus physical and mental health) of general health

Social health, as one of the three pillars of health, is a requirement for having a useful, effective, and satisfactory personal life and social health of members of a community, especially effective and constructive strata such as students, is a necessity for the dynamism, prosperity, and promotion of that community. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the effectiveness of World Health Organization-based life skills training on resilience and social health among sixth-grade male elementary school students. It was a quasi-experimental study followed by a pretest-posttest design with a control group regarding its research method. The current study had a statistical population including all sixth-grade male elementary school students in Zahedan in the academic year 2017-2018. To collect data, a corpus of 30 people was selected using available sampling. 9 sessions of life skills training were conducted on an experimental group; however, a control group was on a waiting list. Afterward, a pretest was carried out on both groups. Connor and Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) and Keyes Social Health Inventory (2004) were asked to complete in pretest and posttest. For data analysis, analysis of covariance. Results indicated that mean scores of resilience and social health obtained by the experimental group increased compared to those of the control group. Accordingly, it can be noted that life skills training promoted resilience and social health among the male students. According to the findings, it can be concluded that life skills training can be applied to enhance levels of resilience and social health among students.