A study of individual and environmental backgrounds of drug use among students of Tehran

One of the issues of youth in Iranian society is drug use. Drug use is influenced by various factors (environmental and individual). The study is to develop a hard and soft drug use model based on Bandura's cognitive-social learning theory and individual and environmental factors (locus of control, academic procrastination, and academic burnout, positive attitude to materials, family monitoring, family conflict, family consumption, peers and local) among students in city of Tehran. It is a correlation scheme based on SEM method specifically regression equations. The sample size was 460 (54 female, 406 male).
The findings showed that the research model was generally fit for fitting and 9 variables had predictive power and explanation (R2= 0/44) of the light drug use variable (R2= 0/64) of the heavy drug use variable. The validity of the tests was also confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. In general, the questionnaires have a high validity and high credibility. According to the results of the analysis, negative family variables, family conflicts, substance use in the family, negative role of the neighborhood and deviant peers through the mediation of the external locus of control, academic procrastination, academic burnout, positive attitude to the materials have a significant indirect effect on the consumption of light materials And heavy. In direct effect analysis of variables, negative family variables, family conflicts, substance use in the family, negative neighborhood role, deviant peers, and external locus of control, academic procrastination, academic burnout and positive attitude toward materials have a direct effect on light and heavy materials use.