The Relationship between Human Needs and Youth Tendency to Delinquency Case Study: High School Students in Shiraz

This study investigates the relationship between human needs and youth tendency to treat delinquent behaviors. For this purpose, 911 male and female high school students in Shiraz in 87-88 academic years were selected by using systematic random sampling. Afterreviewing previous studies and existing theories, based on theories of Maslow, Gough and Burton, a theoretical research framework was formulated. In this study five hypotheses have been tested. Required information was collected with survey method and selfreportquestionnaire. The results have shown that among the factors influencing delinquency students in Shiraz, need security, belonging (social), appreciation and respect (esteem) variables, respectively, have the most effect on youth delinquency. In other words, the research model with three variables could explain about 19 percents of dependent variable.