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Introduction Nowadays, a common goal in local, national and international arena is development of quality of life. Also, future of human’s life is dependent on better conceptualization of factors that influence human’s quality of life. Scholars and researchers have been constantly looking for influential factors of quality of life. In this sense, concept of ‘security’ has been one of the most important, complex and newest concepts in todays’ world and in many political, social and economic fields. Security is considered as a fundamental need and as a necessity of individuals and societies, without which dangerous and overwhelming consequences can emerge. Position of rural, urban and village-city residential areas in comparison with other residential areas, generally, and in comparison with Aslanduz village-city, particularly, can change residents’ expectations and attitudes of indexes of quality of life and social security. Therefore, in the present study firstly concept of quality of life, different definitions of it and components related to ‘feeling socially secure’ have been proposed. In the next section, the relationship between quality of life and components of social security was investigated in a case study through studying Aslanduz village-city as a marginalized residential complex. In what followed, the relationship and correlation of life quality and social security was compared based on main components of each. Material & Methods The present study is a practical study which makes use of a ‘descriptive-analytic-correlation’ approach to investigate research components. Data collection was carried out through surveys and documentary methods. Population included all residents of Aslanduz city-village. Sampling was done based on Cochran Formula and was 384 considering maximum heterogeneity (p=q=0.5). Further, sampling was random. Instrument was World Health Organization questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF to investigate level of life quality. Moreover, to investigate residents’ level of feeling secure use was made of a 6-item questionnaire which investigated different aspects of security. Finally, to analyze the collected data, use was made of descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency distribution, Anova, Independent T-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and Multiple Regression in SPSS. Discussion of Results & Conclusions To investigate respondents’ individualistic and social characteristics, descriptive analysis was used and results showed that majority of male respondents were married and highly educated. Also, to investigating overall satisfaction of life quality and social security, findings revealed that sub-component of economic security has had the lowest satisfaction. In addition, according to surveys regarding life quality, the most undesirable sub-components with the lowest satisfaction are recreational facilities, negative emotions, positive emotions, financial supports and sexual affairs, respectively while the most desirable sub-components included medical cure, physical shape of the body, physical pain, health conditions, and self-satisfaction, respectively. Pearson correlation was used to investigate the relationship between social security and satisfaction of life quality sub-components. Regarding the obtained results of the present study, it can be seen that there was significant relationship between mental health and social security. Moreover, significant relationship was seen between physical health and social security. Also, there was significant relationship between environmental health and social security and the same is true for social health and social security. Finally, according to results, significant relationships were seen between social security and life quality and health in different aspects. In addition, it can be concluded that only when social security is catered for the residents that changes be applied to dimensions and component of life quality. In this way, attempts need to be made to move toward development of dimensions of residents’ lives and. In this regard, the more the quality of life of residents, the more the positive effects on social security this requires long-term plans aiming at promotion indexes of quality of life. Keywords: Introduction Nowadays, a common goal in local, national and international arena is development of quality of life. Also, future of human’s life is dependent on better conceptualization of factors that influence human’s quality of life. Scholars and researchers have been constantly looking for influential factors of quality of life. In this sense, concept of ‘security’ has been one of the most important, complex and newest concepts in todays’ world and in many political, social and economic fields. Security is considered as a fundamental need and as a necessity of individuals and societies, without which dangerous and overwhelming consequences can emerge. Position of rural, urban and village-city residential areas in comparison with other residential areas, generally, and in comparison with Aslanduz village-city, particularly, can change residents’ expectations and attitudes of indexes of quality of life and social security. Therefore, in the present study firstly concept of quality of life, different definitions of it and components related to ‘feeling socially secure’ have been proposed. In the next section, the relationship between quality of life and components of social security was investigated in a case study through studying Aslanduz village-city as a marginalized residential complex. In what followed, the relationship and correlation of life quality and social security was compared based on main components of each. Material & Methods The present study is a practical study which makes use of a ‘descriptive-analytic-correlation’ approach to investigate research components. Data collection was carried out through surveys and documentary methods. Population included all residents of Aslanduz city-village. Sampling was done based on Cochran Formula and was 384 considering maximum heterogeneity (p=q=0.5). Further, sampling was random. Instrument was World Health Organization questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF to investigate level of life quality. Moreover, to investigate residents’ level of feeling secure use was made of a 6-item questionnaire which investigated different aspects of security. Finally, to analyze the collected data, use was made of descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency distribution, Anova, Independent T-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and Multiple Regression in SPSS. Discussion of Results & Conclusions To investigate respondents’ individualistic and social characteristics, descriptive analysis was used and results showed that majority of male respondents were married and highly educated. Also, to investigating overall satisfaction of life quality and social security, findings revealed that sub-component of economic security has had the lowest satisfaction. In addition, according to surveys regarding life quality, the most undesirable sub-components with the lowest satisfaction are recreational facilities, negative emotions, positive emotions, financial supports and sexual affairs, respectively while the most desirable sub-components included medical cure, physical shape of the body, physical pain, health conditions, and self-satisfaction, respectively. Pearson correlation was used to investigate the relationship between social security and satisfaction of life quality sub-components. Regarding the obtained results of the present study, it can be seen that there was significant relationship between mental health and social security. Moreover, significant relationship was seen between physical health and social security. Also, there was significant relationship between environmental health and social security and the same is true for social health and social security. Finally, according to results, significant relationships were seen between social security and life quality and health in different aspects. In addition, it can be concluded that only when social security is catered for the residents that changes be applied to dimensions and component of life quality. In this way, attempts need to be made to move toward development of dimensions of residents’ lives and. In this regard, the more the quality of life of residents, the more the positive effects on social security this requires long-term plans aiming at promotion indexes of quality of life. |