Assessment of quality of life and its impact on citizen participation in urban affairs case study of Neyriz city

Evaluation of the life quality and its effect on the citizens’ participation case study: Neyriz city Nowadays, quality of life is the most supreme level in the objectives of social-economic planning and it is the golden key of citizens’ participation for appropriate and applicable planning in order to improve and increase the quality of life of citizens and it can be evaluated based on two dimensions, subjective and objective. The present study was carried out based on applied research and the descriptive survey research method; the aim of this research was to measure the quality of life and its effect on citizens’ participation in Neyriz. Statistical society of this research is all wardens of families in Neyriz town, which by implementing Cochran formula and simple random sampling, 321 samples were selected and questionnaires were distributed randomly among thirteen neighborhoods. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed from the perspective of scholars, and its reliability was evaluated through the use of coronbach's Alpha ( 0.80 and 0.84). The SPSS and AMOS software were used to carry out the statistical analysis. Results of the study revealed that family life satisfaction indicator with mean (M= 3.75) and health with mean (M= 3.16), had the highest mean and economic indicator with the mean (M= 2.56), had the lowest level of satisfaction in quality of life. Also, in the field of citizens participation, political dimensions with (M= 3.06) had the highest mean and subjective-spiritual index (M= 2.34) had the lowest mean. The results of the correlation analysis indicated that that enhancement of the quality of life can lead to increase of citizens’ participation in urban affairs, and there is a significant and direct relation between these issues. The Regression analysis also showed that the family life index (Beta =0.20) and the economic index (Beta =0.13) had the greatest impact on participation and totally the dimensions of quality of life can estimate 07% of participation variance.