In 2001, a study was carried out in Lorestan province to examine the
factors encouraging misbehavior among high school students in the
three towns of Khorram Abad, Boroujerd, and Nour Abad.From among
the male and female high school students in different fields of study,
975 were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. The study
examined the relation between students misbehavior and some
individual characteristics, such as educational level, sex, some family
features, students self- concept, students relationship with parents,
students self image, job ideals, students impression of his/her family
income, and students impression of rules of order in school.
Selection of variables was mostly based on the theories of social control
as presented by scholars such as Gutt Fredson and Travis Hirshi. The
findings demonstrate that in-school and out-of-school misbehavior both
have common causes, and should therefore not be treated as two
separate phenomena. With regard to the significance of the relation
between misbehavior and the above mentioned variables, findings
suggest that factors influencing students misbehavior at school are:
relationships in the family and at school, students self-concept,
students impression of the family income, fathers job, students
impression of school rule of order, educational achievement and sex.
They also suggest that some variables such as educational achievement,
sex, and relationship with mother play a greater role in out-of-school
misbehavior. The findings are statistically significant.