A Study of the Effect of Family Structure (Satisfactoriness) on Social Participation of Students (A Case Study of Payame Noor University, Hamedan Branch)

Abstract

This study attempts to reveal the effect of family structure on social participation of Payame Noor university students, it consists of 339 students. The theoretical framework of this investigation is based on two hypotheses. Hegen personality structure theory and Parsons action theory. One hypotheses is on satisfactoriness in the family structure were based on personality structure theory and also two hypotheses in regard with tendency toward wisdom and hope for future based on Parson's action theory is involved. The main problem of social participation is that it is successive and periodic as to how social participation is high in one period and low in another one and also it could be stated that our society is of low social participation which results from several factors: the most important one is the order (discipline) of family structure. Since family is the founder of society and also the first center for children socialization. In this way, after theoretical discussion and data collection using Spss software , the researcher analyzed the data using two coefficient methods of Pearson and variance analysis in linear regression. The result obtained from this investigation indicates that the more the satisfaction of the family, the more the social participation of the students , that is , there is a positive and strong relationship between family satisfaction and the degree of social participation