Factors Influencing Students’ Happiness, with an Emphasis on Social Participation

Abstract This study is intended to examine affecting factors on student’s happiness, emphasizing the social participation. Using an integrated theoretical framework helped us to make our hypotheses out of it. All Allame’s students and Amirkabir’s students are population which made a 400 sample size. The sample size based on stratified cluster sampling and research’s data gathered through questionnaires. Findings based on T-test and Pierson tests; show relationship between all variables but, gender and formal participation with happiness. Findings on multiple regression technique show that, Satisfactory of needs, trust to others and informal social participation affect happiness, respectively. Also, the relevant variables account for about 15 percent of the variance on student’s happiness