فصلنامه مطالعات جوان و رسانه
پیاپی 18 (پاییز 1396)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social ethics and social health with an emphasis on the lifestyle of Iranian youth. To this end, after analyzing the theoretical and empirical foundations of the research, the dimensions of social ethics and social health have been investigated separately. Then, the relationship between social ethics and social health is explained and, finally, suggestions are made for the use of national media planners and policy makers. This research is descriptive-analytic, which uses a library-documentary method to study and analyze the quantitative and qualitative data and information obtained from previous research regarding this subject. Findings of this study show that conditions in social ethics indicators such as altruism, social support and social commitment are satisfactory, but the situation is not desirable in the area of legalism. It seems that some of the social health indicators, such as solidarity and social cohesion in our society, have an acceptable score, but there are problems in areas such as social participation and flourishing. Finally, the interrelationship between social ethics and social health can be confirmed.

Social health is one of the most basic social welfare criteria of any society. Social thinkers believe that one of the factors contributing to the promotion of social health of people is leisure time. Therefore, the present study aims to determine the relationship between leisure time and its types and social health. In this paper, Keyes's theory is used to measure social health and Dumazedier’s theory for measuring leisure time types. The research method is a survey based on a researcher-made questionnaire among 300 BA students of Pardis branch of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University in 94-95 academic year using stratified sampling method. Findings of the research indicate that there is a meaningful direct relationship between leisure time and its types and social health of students. The results of regression analysis showed that 25% of the changes in social health is related to the types of individual’s leisure activities. Among leisure-time types, social leisure has the most and practical leisure has the least impact on students’ social health. It should be noted that the effect of physical and artistic leisure on social health is not meaningful.

Marriage with its functions plays an important role in providing people with social health. Islam with its particular approach to marriage, can lead to an improvement in the individual's assessment of his actions toward the community. Religious teachings promote dimensions of social health by emphasizing specially on family formation, observation of privacy in human relationships between man and woman, satisfaction of emotional needs within the family, emotional investment and the assimilation of children, childbirth, maternal care, holiness of marriage, support for family members, etc.. The national media with its great influence over people of the society should properly represent the effective components of marriage on social health in its programming. Hence, in this research we are going to first explain the effective components of marriage on strengthening social health and then discuss the ways of representing them in national media.