informal social networks support and job satisfaction of married women (20-55) in ardabil

the mail goal of the present paper is to study the influence of informal social networkssupport on job satisfaction of married women using the direct effect of social support anddurkheimian anomie theories and network analysis perspective. it has been performed usingsurvey method and questionnaire. statistical population is constituted of all working andmarried women (20-55) living in ardabil. participants were 356 women chosen by multistagecluster sampling. the cronbach's coefficient alpha of 0.70 for job satisfaction and 0.79 forsocial support shows face validity of this variables and appropriate reliability of the tests.results indicate that the women's satisfaction level of job is high and also support levelreceived from informal networks is average. after the husband, among different informalnetworks, relative networks in emotional support and colleague networks in instrumental andinformational support have the most support rate, while neighborhood networks have the leastrate of support. the results of correlation coefficient show that social support as a mediatorvariable in the relationship of network size and frequency of contact with job satisfactionoperates. moreover, regression results show that age, network size, frequency of contact andinformal social networks support are affective variables on job satisfaction of married women.