A Study on the Relationship between Social Support and Social Health (Case Study: Kharazmi University Students)

One of the important issues on the field of sociology is the significant role of social determinants (in this case, support) in human health (particularly its social dimension). This has attracted the attention of many social researchers in recent decades. This study has paid attention to this topic, too.
This research is a cross-sectional survey study. Statistical population of this research, are 361 students of Kharazmi University. Spearman correlation test shows that there is a direct and meaningful relationship between Social health variable and social support. The correlation between different dimensions of social support and social health is equal to 0.298. In addition, the obtained coefficient of determination (r square) indicates that 8.9% of the changes of social health is related to Independent variables (that is, the dimensions of social support) . Based on the results of the Path analysis, the degree of family support in explanation the changes of social health (0/169) is more than Important others support (0/143) and friend support. Similarly, the results of structural equations model and their fitting indicators showed that with increasing social support, social health increases too.