جامعه شناسی کاربردی (Oct 2010)

Investigation Rate of Hope for future and its Effective Factors among Young

  • Jafar Hezarjaribi,
  • Reza Safari Shali

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 3
pp. 149 – 169

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Abstract:Present research investigates hope for future among young people. This research with regard to kind ofresearch method is the type of co- relational research in which two methods of documentary and survey(questionnaire) were used to reach the purposes of research. Statistical population of research includes youngpeople who are between 15 to 30 years old consisting of sons and daughters who inhabit in Qom city. Size ofsample according to Cochran formula is calculated 400 persons. Results of research showed that ١٥ percentof respondents are not very hopeful about future, whereas ٣١ percent of respondents are very hopeful aboutfuture. About ٥٤ percent of them are somewhat hopeful about future. Obtained results from regressionanalysis for identifying factors effecting on rate of hope for future among young people showed that at firstvariable of feeling of acceptability in comparison with others entered in equation. This variable had betacoefficient about 0.27 and next regression equation including Need fulfillment (with coefficient of 0.20)feeling of relative deprivation (with coefficient of 0.15), feeling of security (with coefficient of 0.12), beingfaithful about religion (with coefficient of 0.10) and feeling of justice (with coefficient of 0.07)irrespectively. So regarding the direction of coefficient of feeling of relative deprivation, the kind of its effecton hope for future is the decreasing kind and if feeling of relative deprivation is increased, rate of hope forfuture will be decreased. But effect of other variables on hope for future is the rising kind. Total of explainedvariance by entire of above variables is about 0.41.∗

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