Explaining the Role of Conformity and Psychological Hardiness in Gambling among Young People of Golestan

The aim of the present study was to explain the role of conformity and psychological hardiness in the pathological gambling of Golestan youth in 1401. The statistical population of the research included all young people and teenagers aged 16 to 30 years involved in gambling and had gambling behavior in Golestan province. The sampling method was based on the available targeted method and the number of statistical samples based on Green's formula was considered to be 164 people. The method of data collection was based on stubbornness questionnaire (Kobasa et al., 1982), Gambling Behavior Inventory (Colasanta et al., 2012) and conformity test (Latfi, 2012). The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach's alpha method, and its value was found to be above 0.7 for the questionnaires. Likewise, content validity was used to test the validity of the questionnaire, and for this purpose, the questionnaires were approved by the relevant experts. The analysis of the information obtained from the implementation of the questionnaires was done through SPSS22 software in two descriptive and inferential parts (Pearson correlation and multiple regression). The results showed that 20% of the pathological gambling changes among teenagers and young adults are negatively and significantly explained. And in the second part, the results showed that commitment, control, and fighting are 28%, 26%, and 16% of the changes in gambling among teenagers and young adults in a negative and meaningful way.