Cultural, social and educational vulnerability in adolescents and youths

Introduction: This study was performed to evaluate the rate of cultural, social and educative vulnerability and its related factors among adolescents and youth and to provide the possibility of taking protective measures.   Method: This descriptive-analytic study was performed in year ۲۰۰۹-۲۰۱۰ on adolescent children of a governmental center’s employees. Target population of ۱۲۰۰ cases was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling from Tehran, Qom, Isfahan, Hamadan, Mazandaran, Ardabil, Kermanshah and Khorasan-e-Razavi and finally ۱۰۳۰ people entered the study. Data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire including ۲۰ sub-scales. Data was analyzed using statistical indices of correlation, independent t-test and variance analysis, by SPSS ۱۴ software.   Results: In terms of general vulnerability ۷۰.۴% of cases were protected, ۱۷.۴% was categorized as normal population and only ۱۲.۲% of cases were vulnerable. Majority of vulnerabilities were in the areas of feminism and equal approach to males and females, free time mismanagement, tendency to pleasure and materialism. Conclusion: using all facilities in order to investigate vulnerability in adolescents and youth, establishing family-council centers, trying to enrich and manage adolescents’ free time, train families in order to have more and better supervision and helping families to have better relationship among family members seems necessary in order to prevent injury.

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Keywords: Cultural Vulnerability , social vulnerability , adolescents , Youth