Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran Sociological Review 1010-2809 23 2 2017 02 19 Sociological factors influencing the tendency of students to vandalism (Case study: high school students in Tehran) Sociological factors influencing the tendency of students to vandalism (Case study: high school students in Tehran) 433 452 61048 10.22059/jsr.2017.61048 FA Mansor Vosoghi university of tehran Hossein Mirzaei university of tehran Yones Akbari university of tehran Journal Article 2017 03 19 <span>This study was conducted sociological factors affecting the tendency of students to vandalism. This study is survey reaserch and tools information collection is questionaire. The population, high school students in Tehran Sample size with Cochran formula is 384 persons and inorder to acces to total population used  simple random and cluster samplnig. The theoretical framework of this research is the failure theories Mnrlty Cohen, lower-class culture Miller, anomie, the differential companion Sutherland, anomie theory and family structure and socialization have formed. In order to assess the validity have used from methods face validity and techniques Confirmatory Factor analysis and In order to assess the Reliability used from Cronbach's</span><span>Coefficient Alpha. So inorder to analyze in formation, we have used spss and lisrel And to investigate the factors influencing the tendency of students to vandalism used from Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling. The results showed that relative deprivation feeling, the feeling of anomie and associate with delinquent peers is a significant inverse relationship with the tendency of students to vandalism And variables economic-social and socialization relationship direct and significant with tendency of students to vandalism, also results of structural equation modeling showed that 24 percent of changes tendency to vandalism explained by the independent variables.</span><span>    </span> <span>This study was conducted sociological factors affecting the tendency of students to vandalism. This study is survey reaserch and tools information collection is questionaire. The population, high school students in Tehran Sample size with Cochran formula is 384 persons and inorder to acces to total population used  simple random and cluster samplnig. The theoretical framework of this research is the failure theories Mnrlty Cohen, lower-class culture Miller, anomie, the differential companion Sutherland, anomie theory and family structure and socialization have formed. In order to assess the validity have used from methods face validity and techniques Confirmatory Factor analysis and In order to assess the Reliability used from Cronbach's</span><span>Coefficient Alpha. So inorder to analyze in formation, we have used spss and lisrel And to investigate the factors influencing the tendency of students to vandalism used from Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling. The results showed that relative deprivation feeling, the feeling of anomie and associate with delinquent peers is a significant inverse relationship with the tendency of students to vandalism And variables economic-social and socialization relationship direct and significant with tendency of students to vandalism, also results of structural equation modeling showed that 24 percent of changes tendency to vandalism explained by the independent variables.</span><span>    </span> https://jsr.ut.ac.ir/article_61048_80b7f47a04301140ff0074ba9a11b67e.pdf