The role of friends in the tendency towards addiction between the youths of Sari

Undoubtedly, the current situation of young people in our country depends on numerous factors such as economic, social, cultural, educational and welfare. Given the importance of the role of youth in society, the present study try to investigate the role of friends in the tendency towards addiction in order to provide strategies for reducing these problems in society. The research method is documents and survey and the population are young prisoner boys (21-30) of Sari. The 58 sample are selected by using Cochran formula and simple random sampling. The results of hypothesis suggests that there is a significant difference between the role of friends and the tendency towards addiction at the significant level of 95% and among friends and the tendency towards addiction theory, the lack of emotional relationships has the most role and influence on addiction and other variables, environment, character stability and social status have an indirectly and low affect.

Keywords:

Group of Friends , addiction , youth , environment , stability of personality , emotional relationships , social status