Narges Arab-Moghaddam; Abass Gorgi; Behnam Jamshidy; Raziyeh Sheikholeslami
Volume 14, Issue 28 , September 2015, , Pages 169-184
Abstract
Youths and adolesences are exposed to different role models. Having information about types of role models that youth and adolescences choose, helps to more understading about youth and adolescnces situation in the society.This research was conducted to investigate the perceived significant role models ...
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Youths and adolesences are exposed to different role models. Having information about types of role models that youth and adolescences choose, helps to more understading about youth and adolescnces situation in the society.This research was conducted to investigate the perceived significant role models of adolescents (14-18years old) and youth (19-29 years old) to examine how much youths and adolescents are influenced by role models, and to figure out how these relate to contextual characteristics. Among different theoretical perspective, Bandura’s social-cognitive theory is the best theoretical base which is used in this reseach. Statistical population was adolescents and youths of Shiraz city. Sample size using Lin Table, with confident level of 95% and validity of 3%was 895of youths andadolescents which were randomly selected basedon cluster sampling procedure. A questionnaire consisted of a list of 26 categories of role models had been used. Factor analysis was conducted for the 26 categories which explained 60.72 % of overall variance. The rotated component matrix resulted in 5 categories. The results showed that youths and adolescents chose family members as their first role models. Scientific-literary role models, friends-relatives and acquaintances role models, social role models and artistic-athletic-fictional role models were next, respectively. Chronbach’salphafor role models were as follows: Social role models 0.90,artistic-athletic-fictional role models 0.84, Scientific-literary role models 0.86, family members 0.71, and relatives and acquaintances role models 0.49.The results also showed that the sample differences were observed by age groups, sex, mother and person’s education, family income,marital status, and father’s scoi-economic occupation status