Abstract:   (Original article)

The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between religiosity in different dimensions and social health of youth in the marginal areas of Kermanshah city. Based on the theories of social health of Keyes, religiosity of Glock and Stark, and the theories of the relationship between religion and dimensions of social health of Durkheim, Younger and Davis, this study seeks to answer the main question of whether there is a relationship between different dimensions of religiosity and social health of youth living in marginal areas, using field methods, survey techniques, questionnaire tools and the use of SPSS and AMOS software. The statistical population of the study is youth aged 15 to 29 years in the marginal areas of Kermanshah city, of which 384 people were examined using the Cochran formula as the sample size. The results of the study indicate that there is a positive, direct and significant relationship between religiosity and its dimensions, namely consequential, ritual, belief, experiential and cognitive, and the level of social health of youth. Therefore, all the hypotheses of the study are confirmed. The results of the structural equation model (AMOS) also showed that the overall effect of the independent variable of religiosity on the social health of youth in the marginalized areas of Kermanshah city was 0.54.