A study of effective factors on societal security (the case study: young 18-29 years of Bastak city)

Authors

1 Department of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant professor and member of the faculty of the National Defense and Strategic Research Institute

3 Assistant Professor, National Defense and Strategic Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the present article was to survey the effect factors on societal security among youth in Bastak city. After reviewing research literature and also the available theories in this field, 8 hypotheses have been tested. The research methodology was a survey . data was collected through questionnaire technique and its validity provided by face validity and its reliability was established through cronbachs alpha. After collecting the questionnaires,the data were analyzed using spss statistical software. Inferential statistics such as t-test, oneway Anova and regression were used to test the relationship between the effective independent variables and societal security as dependent variable. The population under consideration was young 18-29 years of Bastak city which using Cochran formula, 210 young were randomly selected as sample. The descriptive finding in this research shows that over half of the young(71/9 percent) had a moderate societal security. Inferential analysis indicated out of independent variables including, gender, marital status, employment status had a significant relationship with societal security. But the age , social class, the educational of young,membership in various society, amount of utilization mass media did not have a significant relationship with the dependent variable. 
 

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