A Study on the Impact of Sports Activities on the Rate of Youth Social Deviances

The research attempts to explain the relationship between sports activities on social deviations among youth with regard to intermediate variables such as social link and differential link for detailed explanation of indirect relationship between sports activities and social deviations. The most important questions which answered in this study are as follows: Do sports activities are effective on social deviations? What impacts Sports activities have on social deviance through social link and differential link? The research method is survey one and data collection instrument is questionnaire. In addition to formal credit, confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, and the reliability was measured based on calculation Cronbach's alpha measure. The Sample of 400 young people ranging 15-29 years old which habited in Tabriz was selected primarily by cluster sampling technique and thereafter by simple random sampling technique by the help of survey and questionnaire procedures. owing to the fact that sports activities (independent variables) are apportioned to (regular, irregular, organized, non-organized individual and team varieties) and social deviations (dependent variable) are assorted to (vandalism, aggression, violence, drugs, alcoholism, and cultural-ethical deviances), statistical findings support the correlation of regular or irregular sports activities and their rate, team or individual sports. The rate of social association and devious friends with social deviances were confirmed but the correlation between organized and non-organized sports activities and social deviances and also between sports activities and social association as well as between irregular sports activities and devious friends were not confirmed.