Relationship Between Level of Welfare Services and Quality of Life in Surrounding Villages of Zanjan City (Case study: Zanjanrud-e Bala Rural District)

Abstract

The villages around the city are simultaneously the scene of formation, growth and continuation of opportunities and threats that affect the quality of life and the way to meet the needs of the residents. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the level of welfare services and quality of life in Surrounding Villages of Zanjan city. This study was conducted by cross-sectional survey on 333 villagers of Zanjanrud-e Bala rural district. The samples were randomly selected from the selected villages by stratified sampling method. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to test the hypotheses by SPSS software. The results showed a statistically significant positive relationship between having welfare facilities and economic, social and environmental quality of life; and a negative and significant relationship between welfare facilities and quality of life with the variable distance from the city. The villages close to the city have a lower level of social welfare, and in contrast, far from the city, the higher the facilities. In addition, people assess the level of welfare facilities and quality of life for the economic dimension as moderate to low and significantly moderate to high for the social and environmental dimensions and a significant difference was between facilities and quality of life. Multiple regression showed independent variables together predict 12.6% of the variance of the quality of life. In general, people have assessed the quality of life along with the welfare facilities of the village as moderate to low and are more deprived..

Keywords

• social welfare
• quality of life
• surrounding villages
• zanjan city