Roxana Sasannejad; majid Safari nia; ahmad alipour
Abstract
The purpose of the present research was to predict voting behaviors based on mental health, social wellbeing and psychological self-efficacy of Tehran citizens in presidential elections . It was a descriptive-correlation research and incuded 400 Tehran citizens higher than 20 years old who at least once ...
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The purpose of the present research was to predict voting behaviors based on mental health, social wellbeing and psychological self-efficacy of Tehran citizens in presidential elections . It was a descriptive-correlation research and incuded 400 Tehran citizens higher than 20 years old who at least once participated in elections. The participents were selected by multistage cluster sampling and they all completed Kinz social wellbeing questionnaire (1998), SCL 25 mental health, Sherer and Madox self efficacy (GSE) and Shahram nia, Milani. Karami Rad and Jamil . voting behaviors (2015). Data were well analyzed by SPSS 20 software and step by step regression analysis test. The results showed that all three regression model are significant in predicting voting behaviors. So, psychological self efficacy, socia l wellbeing and mental health are all considered as the most powerful predicting factors of voting behaviors in Tehran citizens in presidential ellection and also psychological self efficacy, social wellbeing and mental health predict voting behaviors in positive direction (p < 0.01). According to the results, we may expect people to have proper voting behaviors when they experience proper mental health and social health in the society and beside it is necessary in social political training of the society.