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        1 - Determinin the Rate of Violence Spread and the Social Factors Affecting It (A case study of Ajabshir high schools, boy and girl students).
        Mahmood Elmi Khadijeh Tighzan
        Violence among adolescents is one of the major problems in societies which is increasing nowadays. Adolescent violence as a social issue, like other social issues, is affected by different factors. The aim of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting More
        Violence among adolescents is one of the major problems in societies which is increasing nowadays. Adolescent violence as a social issue, like other social issues, is affected by different factors. The aim of this research is to investigate the social factors affecting violence among high school students by using theories of social psychology and sociology in particular. The research is a survey and the research tool is a questionnaire which was distributed among 375 boy and girl students of Ajabshir high schools, who were chosen through systematic and clustering sampling technique. The findings showed that lack of affection toward parents, lack of parent supervision over children's behavior, parents, ill-treatment with children, parents, conflict with each other, peer felons, lack of commitment to ethics, punishment at school, and parents, strictness have a direct and significant relationship with adolescent violence. The multiple regression analysis indicated that the variables of parents, ill-treatment, lack of affection toward parents, parents, supervision, socio-economic status, team work, peer felons, and commitment to ethics have a major share in determining the rate of students, violence. The obtained rate was 51%. Manuscript profile