Investigating of the effective social factors on vandalism of Parsabad city high school students

Vandalism or destruction of public property and belongings of society is a socio-cultural damage that always causes great costs to communities and schools as one of the public and cultural belongings of society is constantly exposed to this damage. In this regard; The aim of this study is to " Investigating of the effective social factors on vandalism of Parsabad city high school students". Research method is survey and data collection tool is a researcher made questionnaire. The statistical population of the study included students of governmental and non-governmental high schools in Parsabad that 362 of them were determined as the sample size using the Cochran's formula and were selected by stratified random sampling to answer the questionnaire. Findings using Pearson correlation coefficient test, multivariate regression analysis and path analysis showed that feelings of descrimination, socio-economic status,communication and companionship, socialization and individual factors affect the vandalism behaviors of these students, respectively. Also; 63% of the changes in vandalism were due to the relationship between a linear combination of independent variables and the remaining 37% were due to other factors that were not considered in this study.