A Comparison of Life-Style, Mental Health, and Happiness in Female High-School Teachers and Housewives in Boshroyeh

The purpose of this study was to compare life-style, mental health and happiness in female high-school teachers and housewives. Also the other purpose of the research was to determine the relation between life-style, mental health and happiness.Therefore 50 teachers and 50 housewives were randomly selected and LifeStyle Questionnaire, General Health Questionnaire and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire were administered to them. For calculation of reliability coefficients of each questionnaire Chronbachs alpha coefficients were determined. The Choronbach reliability coefficients for the LifeStyle Questionnaire was 0.79, for the G.H.Q 0.86, and for OHI 0.93. It was hypothesized that there is a significant difference between the two groups with regard to these variables.The results of analysis of variance showed that there was a significant difference between female teachers and housewives only with regard to happiness. (p=0/02), but not to lifestyle or mental health. The results showed that there was a significant negative relation between anxiety and happiness (p=0.02), between depression and happiness (p=0.006). The relation between somatization, social dysfunction and happiness was not significant.The research findings showed that there was a significant negative relation between the scores of lifestyle and those of mental health (p<0.01) and also between the scores of mental health and those of happiness (p<0.01) There was a significant positive relation between life-style scores and happiness (p<0.01).