چکیده:
Objectives: This survey aimed at studying the effects of socio-economic and family factors in adolescents' tendency towards smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse.Method: Using multistage sampling, 3530 high school students were selected from Tehran, they completed the Iranian Adolescents Risk Behavior Scale questionnaire (IARS) and demographic questionnaire with main focus on their parents’ situation.Results: The results indicate that adolescents` tendency towards high risk behaviors are significantly related with family factors.Conclusion: The existence of high risk behaviors among family members can positively predict adolescents' risky behaviors.
خلاصه ماشینی:
<H1>High Risk Behaviors among Iranian Adolescents: Evaluating the Proportion of Family Factors</H1> Leili Panaghi1, MD Somayeh Mohammadi2, MA Marjan Poshtmashhadi3, PhD Ali Zadehmohammadi4, PhD Zohreh Ahmadabadi5, MA Objectives: This survey aimed at studying the effects of socio-economic and family factors in adolescents' tendency towards smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse.
: Socio-economic, Adolescent, High risk behavior, Smoking, Alcohol consumption, Drug abuse <H3>Introduction</H3> High rate of substance abuse and the absence of socio-economic boundaries put millions of children and adolescents at risk of growing up with addicted parents (Werner, Joffe, &amp; Graham, 1999).
ir 2- Shahid Beheshti University 3- University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences 4- Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University 4- Shahid Beheshti University behaviors (de Kemp, Scholte, Overbeek, &amp; Engels, 2006), substance abuse and addiction (Allen, Donohue, Griffin, Ryan, &amp; Turner, 2003).
The present study aims to determine the role of some family factors (such as parental level of education, family income, smoking, alcohol and substance abuse among parents) on adolescents' tendency to these high risk behaviors.
Results indicated that smoking, alcohol consumption and substances abuse among Iranian adolescents are correlated with the same high-risk behaviors among parents (0.
Other theories have suggested that parental substance abuse may impair parenting which may have influences on adolescents' alcohol consumption and drug addiction (Barnard &amp; McKeganey, 2004; van der Vorst, Engels, Meeus, Dekovic, &amp; Vermulst, 2006).
The current study demonstrates the significant role of family factors especially smoking, alcohol consumption and drug abuse among family members, on Iranian adolescents' tendency towards high-risk behaviors.