Factors affecting the occurrence of individual and collective conflict

Bakhshi, Ghadir; Mossavee, Seyed Mohsen; Emamalizadeh, Hossein; Fasihi, Bahman

doi:10.22054/rjsw.2023.72917.671

Factors affecting the occurrence of individual and collective conflict

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

ghadir bakhshi ¹

seyed mohsen mossavee ²

hossein emamalizadeh ³

Bahman Fasihi ⁴

¹ Assistant Professor of Faraja Research Institute of Law Enforcement Sciences and Social Studies

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yazd University

³ Doctoral student of sociology majoring in social issues of Iran, Yazd University

⁴ Assistant Professor of the Department of Basic Sciences of Amin Public Security University.

https://doi.org/10.22054/rjsw.2023.72917.671

Abstract

Purpose: Violence and conflict are important issues that not only for the people involved in it, but also have many negative consequences for the entire society by creating a feeling of insecurity, eroding social capital and showing a harsh face of the city or neighborhood and so on. After knowing the extent of this damage, it is necessary to take action to reduce it. Methodology: The research method, survey and tools, questionnaire and statistical community, citizens of 18 to 50 years of age are high-risk neighborhoods of three cities of Hamedan province (with the highest frequency of conflicts). The sampling method was clustered in the first stage and random in the next stage. The sample size was determined using Cochran's formula. To evaluate the validity of the questionnaire using the "formal method" and its reliability was tested using Cronbach's alpha test.
Findings: The findings showed the lack of perception of parental supervision, the presence of informal control, as well as formal control, feeling of belonging to the community, satisfaction with the performance of the police, institutional trust, positive relationship and aggression capacity variables. The feeling of belonging to the network of friends, the feeling of social exclusion, the feeling of social failure, of conflict have a negative relationship with both variables of individual and collective conflict tendency.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the research, it can be concluded that by strengthening the aforementioned causal mechanisms, the tendency to altruistic behavior (instead of violence and conflict) can be increased.

Keywords

Key words: Individual and collective conflict

violence

feeling of insecurity

prevention

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