Social Commitment and Delinquency among High School Students of Cities of Yazd and Khorramabad

Social commitment is one of the most important factors in creating social order and social stability in societies. It includes an emotional, cognitive and behavioral state that creates loyalty and commitment to individuals, rules, roles, norms and values. This article examines the relationship between social commitment and delinquency. For this purpose, 402 high school students of Yazd and Khorramabad of the academic year 2016-2017 were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The gathered data were analyzed using AMOS and SPSS. Results indicate that there is a negative and significant relationship between social commitment and delinquency. The results of regression analysis indicate that social commitment, moral annoyance and anomy have the most effect on explaining delinquency.