the sources of social exclusion and happiness in female-headed households

this research is aimed at measuring the happiness of the women who conduct a family in tehran and identifying the causes and background of such happiness and also the causes of ostracism and the ways it affects their happiness. this is an explorative survey. for this purpose,  30 women were selected through snowball sampling and the data was collected through interview and then a survey was conducted with the population of 180. the interviews demonstrated that: factors such as deprivation from basic needs and sense of discrimination have excluded these women from the society and that is why they feel being discriminated and less happy. . based on regression equation, about 70 percent of the changes in terms of happiness of the female heads in tehran is because of  lack of fairness, social ostracism and sense of discrimination and also lack of effective provision of basic needs which faint away their happiness. based on path analysis equation, social ostracism is the strongest factor, which negatively affects their happiness directly and indirectly. lack of fairness comes next in terms of direct effects. sense of discrimination and effective provision of the basic needs are  other factors that affect their happiness respectively.