Investigating The Relationship Between Empowerment and The Improvement of The Quality of Life of Marginalized Citizens of Hematabad District of Isfahan

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. student of Political Sociology, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Dahaghan Branch), Dehaghan, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Islamic Azad University of Isfahan (Isfahan Branch), Isfahan, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Islamic Azad University (Dahaghan Branch), Dehaghan, Iran.

Abstract

In recent decades, the development of urbanization has brought with it problems that marginalization has been one of these social issues. The main problem among marginalized people is their low quality of life; For this reason, urban theorists believe that empowering local residents in urban suburbs can improve their quality of life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between empowerment and improving the quality of life of citizens of Hemmatabad neighborhood of Isfahan, which has been used to achieve the objectives of the research Fitterman theory. The present study is based on a quantitative approach of survey strategy (descriptive-correlation). The statistical population was 15,488 citizens of Hemmatabad neighborhood, 371 of which were examined using the Cochran's formula. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity was formal and its reliability was through Cronbach's alpha-quality of life (0.90), sense of competence (0.90), sense of effectiveness (0.72), significance (0.86), The right to self-determination (0.70) - has been achieved. Spss24 software was also used to analyze the research data and descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the findings. Findings showed that the quality of life of residents of Hemmatabad neighborhood was lower than the average. The results of the research hypotheses indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between empowerment and quality of life (0.68). There was also a significant difference between education, income and quality of life. The results obtained from the research regression model showed that the empowerment variable with beta β = 64 was able to explain 38% of the variance of the quality of life variable.

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Geography and Territorial Spatial Arrangement
Volume 12, Issue 43
June 2022
Pages 179-206

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  • Receive Date: 20 May 2021
  • Revise Date: 04 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 23 February 2022

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