The Impact of Cultural Factors on Women's Tendency to Hookah Consumption in Resorts of Tehran's North

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1 Master of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Bachelor of Nursing, Director of Wemen's Unit of Iranian Anti-Tobacco Association, Tehran, Iran.

3 Faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Head of Iran Tobacco Control Research Center

https://doi.org/10.34785/J016.2020.705

Abstract

One of the anomalies of the women's society is the prevalence of smoking culture, especialy in public settings. In recent years, the increase of the Hookah consumption, from European and American countries to other parts of the world, indicates that the problem has already become a global phenomenon. In Iran, too, statistics indicate that in the last twenty years The Hookah consumption has a dramatic increase, especially in age between adolescence and adolescence and Sexually between women and girls (compared with men), So that their hookah consumption has become a social phenomenon or behavior. youth's about thirty million population and the political, social and cultural role of young girls and women In the process of public developments, especially Upbringing future generation and the growing consumption of hookah in the family and in the community and lack of the research on the problem. The present study aims to sociologically investigate "Cultural Factors Affecting Hooka consumption among girls and young women referring to the North Tehran resorts". The study applies survey method. In this study, by using structural equation modeling, the theoretical model of factors affecting the tendency of girls and young women to hookah smoking, was tested among 120 samples referred to North Tehran resorts. The results show that the relationship between the two variables of "relative deprivation feeling" and "the process of Turning to hookah smoking" with the dependent variable of "a tendency to hookah smoking" is significant at% 90 level. In addition, the relationship between two variables of Two variables of "how to spend leisure time and Cultural consumption" and "attitudes towards hookah smoking" with the dependent variable, Tendency to hookah smoking, is significant at %95 level.

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Sociology of Culture and Art
Volume 2, Issue 2
July 2020
Pages 131-103

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  • Receive Date: 02 February 2020
  • Revise Date: 05 May 2020
  • Accept Date: 14 June 2020

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