The Effect of Some Social Factors on Tendency of Women to Prostitution in Tehran City

Study of prostitution in urban studies is of particular importance because of its rapid growth in cities. This paper aims to study the effect of some social factors on the propensity of women for prostitution in Tehran city. The current study is a cross-sectional survey. The used tool for data collection is questionnaire. The study population is all 18 to 30 years old people living in Tehran city. In this paper, by using Cochran formula, a sample size of 384 was calculated. Sampling method for accessing studied samples, according to heterogeneous population of the city of Tehran, is a multistage stratified random sampling. In this study we examined four variables of Educational level, Social support, Social adjustment, and Adherence to religious beliefs. For testing the correlation between independent variables and dependent variable, Pearson correlation coefficient was used by applying SPSS software.The results showed that there were significant relationships between three independent variables of Educational level, Social support, and Adherence to religious beliefs and dependent variable of tendency to Prostitution (R= -0.731, -0.318, and -0.193, respectively) but there was no significant relationship between Social adjustment and Tendency of Tehranian women to prostitution. In order to investigate the relationship of total independent variables with Tendency to prostitution as well as determining the extent to which the independent variables are capable of explaining level of Tendency, and which one of them is a stronger predictor, Stepwise Multiple regression analysis was conducted. Its results showed that Educational level was the most influential factor.