Bourdieu Analysis of the Role of Economic and Cultural Capital in Explaining Mental Health

The health of any society is based on the health of the family, which itself is affected by the set of interactions that exist among the people of this institution. Meanwhile, the optimal mental health of women and mothers can have a great impact on the health and development of the society. Because the health of women, especially mothers, is one of the basic concepts in social development and welfare. In this regard, the current research was also conducted with the aim of sociologically investigating the relationship between economic capital and cultural capital with the mental health of married women in Tabriz based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework. The research method used in the present research is survey type. The statistical population includes all married women in Tabriz city, 400 of whom were selected using Cochran’s formula and stratified random sampling as the statistical sample of the research to collect data. Also, SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The tool for collecting information is a questionnaire, and the type of validity of the measurement tool is face validity. Cronbach’s alpha technique was also used to measure reliability. The results of the research indicate that the correlation between cultural capital and economic capital was confirmed with all the variable components of mental health (physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, impaired social functioning, depression). Also, the results of the regression analysis showed that the independent variables of the research explained 38% of the changes in the mental health variable.