The modernity and social development is an important issue within developing societies like the Middle Eastern countries. The SDHQ-53 is selfconstructed scale measuring tendency to health and social development upon Iranian-based society. Psychometric properties of SDHQ-53 across urban dwellers in the northwest Iran and discuss its role in the detection of quality of development. About 876 respondents (Mean= 36.3±3.71) were sampled from the eight municipal zones in Tabriz city and replied to SDHQ-53. External and criterion validity was calculated by correlation to the four questionnaires. The SDHQ-53 includes 11 subscales: life satisfaction and health, fatalism, socio-cultural alienation, need for achievement, using media, innovation and creative personality, limited good, individualism, socioeconomic participation, dependency, particularism. There was significant difference within sample groups regarding main variables (ρ<.05). The coefficients of Cronbach's alpha (α=.89), convergent validity (.81), divergent validity (-.21), external validity with overall score of five external scales (Mean=.87), and criterion validity (.78) were estimated, which were significant at ρ<.01. The exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that the SDHQ-53 is organized into 11 factors, which clarifies 92 per cent of the scale's variance. Second-order confirmatory factor analysis pointed out that the factor is well matched up onto a principal factor. Consequently, the 11-factors model was well appropriate for the data by the fit index techniques (AGFI=.88, GFI= .95, RMSEA=.002, IFI=.93, NFI= .96, CFI=.96). The results pointed to the well-adjusted reliability and psychometric properties of the SDHQ-53 and its usefulness for the relevant studies as well.