Social Factors Affecting Attitudes towards High-Risk Behaviors (Case Study: Youth in Sanandaj City)

The purpose of this study was to examine the social factor affecting high-risk behaviors. For this purpose, a theoretical framework based on the ideas of Agniou general pressure, Sutherland Differential affiliation, Hirschi and Gadferson Social inhibition has been used. the statistical population of this study is all young people aged 15-29 in Sanandaj. A sample of 383 of them was investigated by multi-stage cluster sampling method using the survey method and the results have been analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the hypothesis test and theoretical model of the research are based on Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis and regression analysis there are meaningful relationships between all three independent variables of research, namely, social pressure, association with people with high risk behavior, and social deterrence and high risk behaviors. And these three variables, based on the regression analysis, explain 41% of the variance of the variable of the level of high-risk behaviors.