The Role of Cultural Capital on Health-Oriented Lifestyle (Case of Study: 20-49 Year Old citizens of Damghan City)

The purpose of this article is the relationship between cultural capital and health-oriented lifestyle, emphasizing the theory of Bourdieu and Cockerham. The purpose of this article is the relationship between cultural capital and health-oriented lifestyle, emphasizing the theory of Bourdieu and Cockerham. In terms of method, a quantitative approach based on a survey strategy (descriptive-correlation), relying on a standardized questionnaire based on a Likert scale (1 to 7) among 406 citizens aged 20 to 49 in Damghan city as a simple random sampling at the level of the city’s neighbourhoods Damghan findings have been collected. Cronbach’s alpha of the whole questionnaire was equal to (0.930) and the total convergent validity was equal to (0.526). The reliability coefficient of the health-oriented lifestyle variable is equal to (0.930) and the convergent validity value of this variable is (0.540), and for the cultural capital variable, the alpha value is equal to (0.793) and the convergent validity value is (0.508). From the results of descriptive and inferential statistics based on Spss software, the findings have been analysed. Descriptive findings indicate that the averages of the state of cultural capital (4.52) and health-oriented lifestyle (4.29) among the citizens were moderately high, and among the components of the research variables, the component of interpersonal relations (72. 4) and the Institutionalized capital component (5.22) has been more important. The variables of age group, educational group, economic and social base (class) had a significant relationship with the research variables. The results of Pearson correlation (0.588) showed that the relationship between the main variables was medium, positive and significant, and also the assumed relationship between the components of the independent variable and the dependent variable was medium, positive and significant. In the end, cultural assets as tangible goods can be the determining factors of benefiting from healthy life opportunities and the basic choice of factors within the structural framework of a health-oriented lifestyle.