The Relationship between Social Link Established by Family and Interpersonal Violence of Male Juveniles in Yazd

The aim of this study is to invest¬ig¬¬ate¬¬ the relation between social link established by family and interper-sonal violence of male juveniles in the Iranian city of Yazd. The research applies a correlational study to 385 male juveniles who were chosen by means of random cluster sampling. Data on violence and family were collected using the standardized CTS and a researcher-made questio¬n¬¬naires respectively.The results of study show that there is negative meaningful correlation bet-ween family factor and interpersonal violence. Also regression results indi-cate that parent control and attachment to family is the salient predictor for verbal violence; whereas parent con-trol, family attachment age and educa-tional status are the best predictor for mild and severe physical violence; while parent control, parental consent, age and educational status are the major predictor for interpersonal viol-ence.