Introduction: Social participation is considered one dimension and also determinant of quality of life. The level of social participation of the elderly is influenced by various components such as socio-economic and demographic factors. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between social participation, quality of life, and some socio-economic factors in community dwelling elderly ...

prevalence and diversity of non government organizations (ngos) is indicative of social and political maturity in any given society. nowadays, an important concern of ngos is their efforts in how to attract people’s participation in conserving the environment. to promote the participation of these organizations in the environmental conservation, need arises as to determine the factors influen...

Community participation, as one of the basic components of sustainable development in a community. This study aimed to determine patterns of community participation, identify factors associated with their social and civic engagement, and examine the relation between the factors and community engagement patterns. Patterns of citizen participation were determined in social and civic engagements. ...

the present study was undertaken to analyze factors affecting farmers' participation in the management of water network in jarghouyeh district in isfahan county. a descriptive correlation research design was adopted for the study. at the field work level, surveying was the basic method which was taken into consideration. the statistical population of the study consisted of about 1810 membe...

this paper attempts to determine the relationship between women’s participation and their empowerment. empowerment is a process whereby women become able to organize themselves to increase self-reliance and to assert their independent right to make choices and control resources. empowerment in this study was adopted from rowlands (1997) and schulz, et al. (1993) which has two levels, individual...

the general purpose of this article is to identify the influencing factors on rural women participation inagricultural extension programs in mazandaran province. therefore, using multi-stage sampling, 300 ruralwomen were selected randomly. the research instrument was a semi-structured questionnaire. results showthat rural women participation in agricultural extension programs is at average leve...