Investigating of Factors Related to Yazdian Youth Attitude to Possible Damage to Girl-Boy Relationships

The interactions among boys and girls in pre-marital is one of the complex phenomena in the society which is influenced by culture, religion and customs that are of control and limitation. In some cases, these relationships can cause great damages and negative impacts on youth and society. The study is a kind of pathology on girl- boy relationships. In other words, it examines the attitude to negative impacts of girl- boy relationships in the city of Yazd. Research method was survey and data was collected by a questionnaire and 246 youth selected by cluster sampling method. Research instrument was approved by content validity and Cronbach's alpha was used to evaluate the reliability. Data was analyzed by the statistical software’s, namely SPSS. In this study damage of relations between the two sexes measured and evaluated in six groups psycho-emotional injuries, damage to future marital life, social pathologies, educational, family and physical. Findings of the study showed there was significant relationship among attitude to damages of girl- boy relationships with socioeconomic status, age and education. Also there is significant relationship among attitude to damages of girl- boy relationships according to sex, occupation, experience friendship with the opposite sex and dimensions of injuries.