The effect of effective factors on the phenomenon of vandalism among students of Tabriz University

Throughout history, there have always been people who, for various reasons, have ignored social norms and regulations and committed abnormal acts. The phenomenon of vandalism is one of the manifestations of deviation and deviation and is one of the most common phenomena among young people, especially students. Vandalism in sociology is used in the sense of having a pathological spirit that expresses the destruction of public property and facilities. Due to the importance of this topic, the present study seeks to investigate the impact of factors affecting vandalism among students. The statistical population of this study includes all students of Tabriz University, from which 321 people were selected as a statistical sample in this study based on Cochran's formula. The research method is survey and the measurement tool is a questionnaire. SPSS 23 software was used to analyze the collected data. The collected data were analyzed by considering the levels of measurement of the variables. According to the research results, there is a significant correlation between the variables of vandalism and sense of meaninglessness, vandalism and social isolation, and feeling of abnormality and sense of belonging to the university.