factors affecting on the citizens' social participation in the civic affairs in mashhad

the article aims to consider factors affecting on the social participation of citizens 18 to 64 years old in the civic affairs in mashhad. the method was survey and the population included all the all inhabitants of mashhad. sample size was 348 respondents who were selected by proportionate systematic sampling strategy for interviewing. the results showed that participation mean is 3.19 out of 4 which considers as high amount. there was seen a significant relationship between powerless feeling, awareness of participation, age, social network, social trust, associational membership, socio-economic status, satisfaction with municipality performance and social participation. the last factor was of most importance in prediction of dependent variable which explained 0.31 of variance.