Some Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing the Propensity to Murder among Young People in Ahwaz, Iran

This paper aims to study Factors that affect Propensity to Murder among people with 20-30 years old living in Ahwaz city, located in Iran. To do this, using some socio-cultural theories about tendency to kill, we tried to study some socio-cultural factors effective in this field. Population is all the young people of Ahwaz and the method of sampling is multistage stratified random sampling. By using Lin Sample Size determination table, a sample size of 384 was calculated. In this research in order to evaluate social support variable, the Social Support Questionnaire of Russell and Cutrona, to assess social adjustment variable, California Test of Personality, to examine social intimacy variable, Miller Social Intimacy Scale and for evaluation of social violence and Propensity to Murder, researcher made questionnaires were used. Variables of this research were Social adjustment, Social support, Social violence, and Social intimacy as dependent variables and variable of Propensity to Murder as independent variable. Inferential statistics results showed that the relationship between variables of Social adjustment, Social support, Social violence and Propensity to Murder was significant while there was no significant relationship between Social intimacy and Propensity to Murder. In continue, multiple regression analysis was carried out by entering four variables in the equation, as a result, a total of 39.7% of independent variable was explained.