Purpose: The quality of life is one of the variables that it's
investigate is very important and it seems that the presence in the
sports-recreational places of parks has an effective role on it.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the impact of
students' presence in the sports-recreational places of parks on the
quality of life through the mediation of socio-economic status.
Materials and Methods: This study was descriptive from type of
correlation. The research population was the students using the
sports-recreational places of Tehran city parks in 2021-2022
academic years. Among them, number of 450 students were selected
as samples by random cluster sampling method. The data were
collected by researcher-made questionnaire of students' presence in
the sports-recreational places of parks, quality of life inventory
(Varni et al., 2001) and socio-economic status questionnaire
(Ghodratnama et al., 2013) and were analyzed by the structural
equation modeling method in SPSS-25 and Smart PLS-3 software.
Findings: The findings showed that the model of students' presence
in the sports-recreational places of parks on the quality of life
through the mediation of socio-economic status had a good fit. Also,
the students' presence in the sports-recreational places of parks had
a direct and significant effect on the quality of life and socioeconomic status and socio-economic status had a direct and
significant effect on quality of life and the students' presence in the
sports-recreational places of parks had an indirect and significant
effect on the quality of life through the mediation of the socioeconomic status (P<0.001).
Conclusion: The findings of the research indicated the direct effect
of students' presence in the sports-recreational places of parks on the
quality of life and its indirect effect through the mediation of socioeconomic status. Therefore, in order to improve students' quality of
life can provide the basis for improve their students' presence in the
sports-recreational places of parks and socio-economic status.