Predicting Addiction Tendency Based on Youth Lifestyle and Cultural Capital

The purpose of this study was to predict addiction tendency based on youth lifestyle and cultural capital. For this purpose, 136 youths living in Fasa prison were selected by convenience sampling and they answered addiction tendency questionnaire, cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire, Lifestyle Questionnaire (LSQ), Cultural Capital Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions. Findings showed that cognitive emotion regulation, lifestyle and cultural capital had a positive and significant relationship with youth addiction tendency. Also, only all components of cultural capital had a negative and significant relationship with the tendency to marry young people, and there was no significant relationship between the components of lifestyle. Regression results also showed that the results showed 11.4% of youth addiction tendency changes it is explained by the variables of emotion regulation and 43.8% of the changes in the tendency for youth addiction by the components of cultural capital.