Lying is a social thing, because it is realized in human and social relations. We always lie by imagining the presence and existence of another. Lying is a cultural and negative social phenomenon of moral disgust that is unfortunately common among people in society today. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between social capital and communication action with a tendency to lie. The research method is descriptive correlation and the statistical population is the students of Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch with a sample size of 375 people who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data collection was performed using a questionnaire whose validity was calculated by content and form and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha. In the theoretical framework of the research, the theories of Bourdieu, Habermas, etc. have been used. SPSS and Amos software were used to analyze the data. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant inverse relationship between the tendency to lie with social capital (r = -0.179 and p = 0.001) and communication action (e = -0.119 and p = 0.021). There was no significant relationship between contextual variables (gender, age, marital status and level of education) of respondents and tendency to lie (P> 0.05). Keywords: Lying, communication action, social capital, students of Islamic Azad University, Tabriz
Present study aimed to investigate the effects dimensions of monetary ethics (budget, corruption, justice, success and motivator) on life satisfaction. In this descriptive-correlational study based on Structural Equation Modeling, professors and employees of Yazd University were selected by proportional-stratified random sampling method in 2018-19 academic years. Tang and Whiteside (1997) monetary ethics questionnaires and Diener et al. (1985) life satisfaction questionnaires were used for data collection Data were analyzed using SPSS24 and Pls2 statistical softwares. The results of the study showed that the motivator factor with high score predict changes in life satisfaction in both the professor and employee groups, in other words, people who are more motivated by money are more satisfied with their lives. For employees, in addition to the motivator factor, equity factor and a success factor were predictors of life satisfaction, so that the success factor with a high score caused less satisfaction from life and the justice factor with a high score caused more satisfaction from life.
