Citizens' Knowledge Behavior: Role of Learning Competencies of Citizen's Knowledge Behavior in the Socialization of fight against Narcotics

The present study aims to measure the level of maturity of citizen's knowledge behavior in the city of Isfahan in the process of the socialization of fight against drugs. This research is descriptive and a survey type wherein a researcher-constructed questionnaire was used to collect data. In order to design the questionnaire, the existing opinions and viewpoints were reviewed. All intended dimensions, components, and indicators were extracted and Delphi technique was used to prepare the initial checklist to be distributed among the experts for determining the degree of fitness and importance of the indicators. As a result of the adjustment and determination of the content validity and reliability as well as the construct validity of the instrument through factor analysis approach, the output was drawn up in the form of a final questionnaire. The statistical population of the research consisted of professors and staff of universities and research centers in Isfahan. From among them, 379 individuals were selected as the research sample by simple random sampling according to the entry criteria of the research. The data were analyzed using factor analysis and structural equation modeling. According to the research findings, individual health, entrepreneurship, individual skills were reported as the three components of citizens' knowledge behavior. In addition, among 135 behavior indicators, knowledge about social health indicators, healthy living environment, emotional health, occupational health were recognized as the key priorities of the dimension of human capital (individual) in citizen's knowledge behavior; and social participation and participation in the transfer of urban knowledge heritage, use of abilities and competencies of others, awareness of social welfare, service awareness development of social networks (NGOs, etc.), identification of addiction tendency factors, and other social trauma were reported as the five key priority indicators of citizens' knowledge behavior in terms of human capital (collective). The findings of this research showed that citizens of Isfahan are placed at the second level of maturity of citizenship knowledge behavior.