Explaining the causal model of tendency to high-risk behaviors based on psychological flexibility and attachment styles mediated by emotion-seeking in male and female high school students

The purpose of this study was to explain the causal model of tendency to high-risk behaviors based on psychological flexibility and attachment styles mediated by emotion seeking in male and female high school students. This research has been a descriptive correlation in terms of applied purpose and in terms of data collection by structural equation method. The statistical population of the present study was all students studying in the second year of high school in Shiraz in the academic year 1399-1400. 300 people were selected as a sample using cluster random sampling method. In the descriptive statistics section, the indicators of mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum scores and in the inferential statistics section, Pearson coefficient, multiple regression and path analysis test have been used. Findings showed that the causal model of tendency to high-risk behaviors based on psychological flexibility and attachment styles mediated by emotion-seeking in female and male high school students has a good fit and significance (P <0.05). All direct and indirect pathways in this study that lead to predicting the tendency to high-risk behavior were significant (P <0.05). In the meantime, only ambivalent attachment style could not significantly explain the tendency to high-risk behavior (P <0.05). Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that; Secondary school students, both boys and girls, with high flexibility, secure attachment style and distance from avoidant attachment style can reduce their excitement and ultimately avoid high-risk behaviors.