Investigating effective motivational factors in the occurrence of family murders (Mazandaran province case study)

The occurrence of family murders will decrease the feeling of social and psychological security of the society and will have a negative effect on the increase of security indicators. Identifying factors affecting family murders can help the authorities to take appropriate measures to prevent this issue. The purpose of this article is to identify motivational factors effective in the occurrence of family murders.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and qualitative and exploratory in terms of the nature of the data and the method of implementation. Thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data. The studied population of the murderers of family murders in Mazandaran province since 2022 have been in the prisons of this province, the sample size was 17 people who were selected by purposeful sampling. The semi-structured interview data collection tool was analyzed with thematic analysis strategy and three stages of coding in MAXQDA20 software. In order to check the reliability and validity of the interview, in addition to the supervision of an expert (supervisor) to increase the level of verifiability of the information, the identified themes were discussed with some of the interviewees and their opinion was applied regarding the correctness of these results.

In this research, 9 dimensions were identified as motivating factors for family murder, which are: marital relationships, family interactions, behavioral problems, lack of self-control, personality and personal disorders, personal cynicism, mental and physical violence, family disintegration. and family context.

The results of the analyzes conducted on the interviewees showed that the factors of family interactions and personality and personal disorders are in the first place and personal pessimism and mental and physical violence are in the last place among motivational factors.