Social competence of adolescents Of Parents with substance use in High Schools in West Of Tehran

Background: Substance use not only affects a person's personal life, but also creates many problems and hardships for the family and society, threatens the quality of life of the consumer and his family, and imposes a heavy burden on them. Substance abuse also affects the children of these families. Parental addiction has a significant impact on children, including helplessness, depression, anxiety, lack of trust in relationships, the development of high-risk behaviors, and feelings of guilt in behavioral problems, as well as poor social competence and emotional regulation compared to other peers. Among the problems of adolescence are dealing with issues such as identity crisis, social and sexual deviations, emotional disorders (depression), aggression, delinquency, addiction, suicide, and the requirement for a healthy period is social competence. An individual's success in society depends on the extent to which he or she has achieved the power of desirable social competence for self-actualization. The development of social competence is an essential factor for the future functioning of the individual in society, which also leads to a reduction in the risk of behavioral and emotional problems. Weaknesses and deficiencies in social competence can lead to many psychological disorders in the growth and development of the child and rejection and humiliation by peers. Considering the need to focus on the characteristics of adolescents living in families involved in substance abuse, especially social competence in them and promoting their health and prevention, as well as due to the different social and cultural conditions in our country and the growing importance of attention to dimensions Psychology of adolescents, this study was conducted to determine the Social competence of adolescents Of Parents with substance use in High Schools in West Of Tehran. Method: This research was a descriptive study that was conducted in 1399. The study population consisted of 265 adolescents with parents who used substances employed to study in public primary and secondary schools in the west of Tehran in areas 5, 10, 18 And the researcher in all the above-mentioned areas went to schools in person every day of the week except holidays to do the sampling, and after the necessary coordination and obtaining informed consent from the research samples, the link of online questionnaires in WhatsApp is available They were placed. Inclusion criteria for eligible students included adolescents aged 14-18 years, no history of known physical and psychological problems based on self-reported adolescents with at least one substance abusive parent. Data collection tools included demographic characteristics form and social competence scale. The demographic information form included questions about age, gender, level of education, field of study, economic status, residence status, number of children, illness, number of children, mother's education, father's education, mother's job, father's job. To analyze the data in line with the purpose of the research, descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance) were used in SPSS software version 24 and the significance level was less than 0/05 was considered. Results: Based on the findings, the mean age of adolescents was 14.84 with a standard deviation of 1.03 years. In terms of gender, majority of adolescents(83.8%) were boys. In terms of educational background, the majority of adolescents were in the ninth year. In terms of field of study, the majority of adolescents did not choose a field (ie they were in the eighth and ninth grades). In terms of family economic status, the majority of adolescents reported moderate family economic status. The majority of adolescents had a rented home in terms of residence status. In terms of the number of children in the family, most of them had two children. In terms of disease, the majority did not report a specific disease. 84.9% of fathers were employed. 89.1% of mothers were housewives. In terms of education level, the majority of fathers had a bachelor's degree and the majority of mothers had a diploma. Also, the mean and standard deviation of social competence are 23.09 and 3.77, respectively, which is close to the maximum score of the instrument. The results of numerical indices of social competence of adolescents with parents with substance use in terms of demographic information-1399 also showed that social competence was not statistically significant with any of the demographic information of adolescents. Conclusion: this study was conducted to determine the Social competence of adolescents Of Parents with substance abusers in High Schools in West of Tehran. It was concluded from this study that social competence had no statistically significant relationship with any of the demographic information of adolescents. In this regard, the researcher, by examining studies consistent and inconsistent with our findings in different societies, cultures, contexts, environments and different examples, concluded that there are conflicting results and differences and similarities in the areas mentioned. It can justify the consistent and inconsistent results with our study. Also, social competence had no statistically significant relationship with any of the demographic information of adolescents. Finally, our findings can be used as basic information and knowledge for family policy makers and educational administrators to focus more on the social competence of adolescents, especially adolescents with parents with substance abuse, by adopting constructive and educational programs. In addition, school officials can help adolescents of Parents with substance abusers identify problems to help them solve their problems. The results of the present study can be used by education officials, including principals, to educate and increase parental awareness, and these huge investments must be trained in a way that guarantees future progress. One of the limitations of this study is that virtual education in schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic method and lack of access and face-to-face interaction of the researcher with the samples and due to ethical and cultural issues of the present study could not identify substance abuse in mothers. It was limited to adolescents whose fathers were substance abusers.