Presenting a Causal Model of Tendency to High-Risk Behaviors Based on Religious Attitude and Parental Parenting Styles: Mediated by Time Vision

High risk behaviors are behaviors that endanger the health and well-being of adolescents and young people. The aim of this study was to present a causal model of tendency to high-risk behaviors based on religious attitudes and Parental Parenting Styles: mediated by time perspective.

The present study is descriptive-survey in terms of nature, application, quantitative type and in terms of process and method of data collection and analysis.. data analysis method, descriptive structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study is all female high school students in Tehran  in year 2019-2020 of 251,000 female.The sample was selected using Cochran's formula consisted of 383 people who were selected using cluster random sampling. To collect data, Bory Perceived Parenting Questionnaire (PAQ) (1991), Golriz & beraheni Religious Attitude Scale (1974), the Zimbardo Time Vision Questionnaire (ZTPI)(1999)  and Zadeh Mohammadi et al Iranian Adolescents' Risk Scale (2011) Questionnaire were used.

The results indicate that the tendency to high-risk behavior based on religious attitudes is directly related. The tendency to risky behavior based on parenting style is directly related. The tendency to risky behavior based on religious attitudes is indirectly related to the mediation of the time perspective. Tendency to high-risk behavior based on parenting style is indirectly related to time perspective mediation.

The results showed how interpersonal factors in a model affect the tendency to a variety of high-risk behaviors in adolescents. Finally, the results showed that the overall model of the research has a strong fit.