The study of the role of fundamental psychological needs in the tendency towards addiction and social security feeling in Ahar students

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of fundamental psychological needs in the tendency to addiction and social security feeling of students in Ahar city. For this purpose, 400 high school students from Ahar city who were selected by means of random cluster sampling from Ahar high schools were asked to answer the basic psychological needs questionnaire, social security feeling questionnaire and addiction questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS software and multiple regression analysis. The results of multiple regression analysis for the first hypothesis show that there is a negative and significant relationship between the components of basic psychological needs and the need for autonomy and the need to communicate with the tendency to addiction. Also, the results of regression analysis for the second hypothesis showed that the components of basic psychological needs, the need to communicate with the sense of social security have a negative and significant relationship. Regarding the effect of satisfaction of basic psychological needs in the tendency to addiction and social security, attention to satisfaction of these needs is necessary.