بررسي عوامل خانوادگي موثر بر فرار دختران نوجوان بزهكار

Survey at the Familial Factors Atfectiug Delinquent Adolescent Girls Running Away from their Homes

This descriptive-analytical study was intended to survey the familial factors affecting delinqueut runaway girls , 12 to 18 years of age , temporarily residing in the reformative training center of Tehran in 1379 (2000) . 75 files of the population were randomly selected . A questinnaire including two parts was used for data collection : the first part (13 questions) dealt with personal characteristics and the second (21 questions) dealt with familial factors . Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis . One-way ANOVA , 1-test and Pearson correlation coefficient were among the statistical measures which rendered figures and tables of relative and absolute frequency . The study findings indicated that the clientʹs education , parentʹs occupation , history of drug abuse in client and family and number of family members showed significant relationship with average runaway age ; also between clientʹs history of drug abuse , motherʹs occupation , clientʹs runaway frequency with average arresting age . In addition , a significant relationship was found between clientʹs history of drug abuse and alcohol , marital status and raising out problems with the average runaway duration . However , no significant relatonship was found to exist between other variables .