Social Development & Welfare Planning

Investigating the vulnerability of Iranian families based on Social and demographic variables

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

ahdieh asadpour 1
Mehri Sadat Mousavi 2

1 departmant of social science education, farhangian university, tehran.iran.

2 Head of Allameh Tabatabai Branch of ACECR

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2024.69817.2405
Abstract
The present study aims to investigate and analyze the level of vulnerability of Iranian families in different psychological, economic and socio-cultural dimensions. In order to achieve the aforementioned goal, he used the strategy of secondary analysis of the national family survey data. The findings of the research showed that among the background variables investigated, only the marital status variable had no significant correlation with the level of vulnerability, and other research variables (age, education level, and gender) had a significant relationship with the dependent variable of the research. So that in terms of the level of vulnerability (total and three dimensions) of the respondents, the highest percentage belonged to those with a diploma level of education, the age group of 30-49 years and women (in the psychological dimension). In terms of child rearing method, authoritarian and non-authoritarian medium upbringing method had the highest level of economic and psychological vulnerability, and completely authoritarian method had the lowest level. The highest level of economic vulnerability was related to families with 5 children and more, and the lowest level belonged to families with two children and less. The lowest level of total vulnerability and its dimensions were assigned to those with a completely negative attitude towards divorce.

Keywords

Vulnerability of families
number of children
method of raising children
secondary analysis
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