Sociological Studies of Youth Journal
Volume:10 Issue: 32, Winter 2019

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching positive thinking skills on students' negative emotions and perfectionism. The present study was experimental. The statistical population of this study was all high school female students in the city of Fereydunkenar in the academic year of 2017-2018. The research sample consisted of 30 high-perfectional students who were randomly selected. These 30 subjects were divided into two experimental and control groups, which were considered for 13 sessions of 90 minutes for teaching positive thinking skills. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. The obtained data were used using covariance analysis. The results showed that teaching positive thinking skills was effective in reducing the negative emotion and perfectionism among female students (P <0.01). As a result, this approach can be used as a method in schools to improve the mental status of students.

This research aims at the relationship between dependence on mobile social networking and academic performance of second-grade male high school students in Tabriz City. This research is an applied research based on descriptive-correlational methodology. Statistical population of this research includes all second-grade male high school students in the academic year of 2016-2017 whose volume is 27671. Sample volume was estimated 384 by Cochran’s formula. Multistage cluster sampling method was used. Then, the researcher-made questionnaire has been used to collect data. SPSS software was used to analyze the data, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used to analyze the hypotheses. Research results showed that using mobile social networking has a negative effect on students' academic performance. In addition, there is a significant relationship between dependence on mobile social networks and mental health and intention to continue education and students’ academic failure.

This study aimed to assess organizational health and its relationship with the leadership style of young managers of Industrial Estates in Mazandaran Province. This is a descriptive study. The study sample consisted of managers and employees of Industrial Estates of Mazandaran province. The total amount of population was 170 persons (150 employees and 20 managers). The sample of this study was 108 employees. This number is determined by referring to the Morgan & Krejcie table. The sample of this study was chosen randomly. Research data was analyzed using SPSS Software. According to the results, there is a relationship between the authoritarian leadership styles of managers; benevolent authoritarian leadership style of young managers and organizational health but this relation is inverse and negative. Also, there is a significant relationship between participative style of management, leadership styles and organizational health of industrial estates in Mazandaran province.

The purpose of this study is to identify spouse selection criteria among Islamic Azad university students in Malayer.The research was based on survey method and a questionnaire is used to collect data. The sample size was 365 participants who selected based on classified sampling. The data was analyzed using statistical analysis. Also sociological theories including theories of marriage used to study families and theoretical framework. The results were classified into categories such as material/nonmaterial, personal/family criteria for spouse selection. As if university students valued both nonmaterial criteria like romance and love. The findings show that there are significant relationships between socio–economic status, education, age, and spouse selection among university students. Implications of this study are also discussed.

The overall aim of this study was to investigate the social and cultural factors and consequences of young female sexual intercourse (Case Study: Khorramabad city). The survey method was used to analyze the statistical population of all 15 to 50-year-old women in Khorramabad city. The sample size was 373 persons using Cochran's formula. Sampling method was simple random sampling. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS and Amos software. The results of independent t-test showed that there was a significant difference in the amount of young female sexual intercourse by type of coverage in the 95% confidence level. The results of the structural equation show that social class, social support, social status, religiousness, age and lifestyle of young women have a reciprocal and significant effect on sexual intercourse. Social participation and social networks of women have a positive and significant impact on sexual harassment. The results of the final model showed that social support with direct effect which explained the highest amount of variance in sexual intercourse.

This study examined to study how respondents rely on the Internet to fulfill the various life goals dimensioned into understanding, orientation and playing goals, and how this dependency relates to the generation of social capital. Further, it examined the resources of social capital in terms of bonding social capita and bridging social capital. In this study quantitative research approach was applied. To achieve the purpose of this study, the cross sectional research design was used. In this study a questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The population of this study is graduate science and social science students in University Putra Malaysia (UPM). One of the major assumptions that this study focuses on is that Internet understanding dependency, orientation dependency, and play dependency and news attention influenced the online social capital. The structural equation model analysis showed that use of Internet with goals of the understanding and orientation as latent constructs, were found to be significant in relationship with online social capital. The structural equation model analysis showed that use of Internet with goal of play as latent construct no positive significant relationship with social capital online.

Both drug use and sex work considered as serious health and social problems. This study aimed to find the relation between them in young Iranian women. A mixed method of data collection applied from 300 young female sex workers in Tehran and 39 in-depth interviews with key informants. Result show that 84.4 % of participants used drugs before sex work. 46.2% of their fathers and 56.6% of their husbands used drug. 13.6% of these women mothers were sex workers. Evidences stated that priority of drug addiction to sex work cannot be generally determined. This study finding indicated that young women use drugs mostly before sex work; but substance abuse after starting sex work was to reduce the mental and physical sufferings to facilitate working through raising sexual potency and to sink in ecstasy and ignorance meanwhile in most cases to be able to obtain drugs.

The study of consumer tastes and preferences of individuals towards cultural goods including music can determine the type and structure of social relations and interaction between people in different social strata.Contrary to what is commonly believed to joy and entertainment, instrumental music is not the thing that can reflect the meaning of life in a community or group. This study aims to study music in sociological survey conducted among young people in Sabzevar. This study uses survey method on 400 young people. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the use of music and religion. This means that with increasing religiosity of music consumption, the amount of interest to foreign music, musical activities and reduced interest rates to female and male singers on the amount of interest will be added. When the cultural capital increases, consumption will raise in all its dimensions. Social capital does not explain musical consumption. Economic and social status of the parents, amount of musical interest, activity, and cognition relates to the numbers of foreign music and female singer.