Explanation of Depression Level Based on Lifestyle through the Mediation of Social Health and Quality of Life

Introduction: the lifestyle of individuals is important and is considered as a determinant for the status of psychological and social health. lifestyle refers to the way a person's lives according to his/her abilities, but because of the important role of this issue in the health of the individual and the society, it means choosing the best way of improving the health aspects in life.method: this study is a basic research type and is in the framework of correlational plans. the population of the study included 383 people, a sample of all the adults of ahwaz, chosen through a multistage random cluster sampling method. the data of the study was collected by using the health promoting lifestyle questionnaire of walker and polerrcky (1987), and also the keyes social health (2004), and beck depression inventory ii (1996) and quality of life questionnaire (1993). besides, the data was collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling.results: the results of the hypothetical model were confirmed. the outcome of the coefficients and path analysis revealed that: lifestyle has a direct effect on depression, social health and quality of life also had an indirect effect on depression.conclusion: according to the results of the research, depression can be used to explain the components of lifestyle, social health and quality of health.