A Study of the Relationship among Fars Shahed and Esargar High School Student's Quality of Life, Selfesteem, Locus of Control, Stress and Social Capital

The main goal of this study was to investigate the interrelationships among quality of life, self-esteem, locus of control, stress and social capital of Shahed and Esargar high school students of Fars. A total of 296 students (248 regular and 248 Shahed and Esargar high school students) were selected from Shiraz, Kazerun and Marvdasht high schools employing stage cluster sampling. A use was made of Cronbach’s alpha to establish the reliability of the instruments used in the study. A use was also made of item analysis and experts’ consensus to evaluate their validity. The results of the study revealedthat roughly 60% of Shahed and Esargar students had a moderate quality of life and only 15.6% of them had a low quality of life. Independent t-test indicated that there was no significant difference between the life quality of regular and Shahed and Esargar highschool students. Pearson correlation suggested that there was a positive relationship among Shahed and Esargar high school students’ quality of life, self esteem, locus of control and social capital. However, there was a negative relationship between their quality of life and stress (p<.05). Multiple regression analyses also showed thatamong these variables locus of control predicted approximately 36% of the variance in Shahed and Esargar high school students’ quality of life.