Examining the Relationship Between Parenting Style And Mental Health with Readiness for Addiction in Male and Female Students of Kerman City

The study aims to the relationship between parenting style and mental health with addiction readiness of Kerman students. The present research is of a descriptive-correlation type and the statistical population included all male and female students of the secondary school in the 2nd district of Kerman in the year 1400-1401. Using Cochran's formula, 360 male and female students have been selected. The sampling method in this research is based on multi-stage cluster sampling. To collect information, questionnaires on readiness for addiction, parenting methods and mental health have been used, and Spss24 software applied for data analysis. The findings indicate that the level of mental health shows a significant difference according to gender, and according to the average obtained, boys have lower mental health than girls (p<0.05). There is a significant relationship between parenting styles and mental health of male and female students with readiness for addiction (p<0.05). Also, in the prediction of the effect of independent factors on readiness for addiction in male and female students, it is found that the variable of paranoid thoughts is the most important variable affecting readiness for addiction in both groups of student.