Social damage in any society is considered one of the major threats to the social system. If the members of the society violate the social norms, the society cannot perform its functions easily, so it will suffer from disorganization and disorder. The main goal of the current research was to provide a model for reducing social harm based on social structures. This research is a hybrid or mixed research in terms of the purpose and nature of the research, in terms of the library environment, in terms of the developmental and practical purpose, in terms of the cross-sectional data collection time, in terms of the descriptive-survey research implementation method, and of correlational and causal type. The statistical community in the qualitative section is 30 university experts, psychologists in the field of social pathology and university professors in this field of pathology. Also, the statistical population in the quantitative section includes teenagers from selected schools from the Department of Education of the first district of Tehran, 250 of whom were selected by stratified random sampling. In order to collect data and information in this research, library and field methods were used at the same time, and questionnaire tools were used in the field method. Fuzzy Delphi method and MaxQDA software were used to analyze the qualitative data of the research, and Structural Equation Modeling and Lisrel software were used to analyze the quantitative data. According to the results of the Delphi process, it was done in three stages, and at the end of this stage; A consensus was reached and social harms include individual factors, family factors, social and cultural factors and legal, institutional and governance factors as well as social structures including social networks, cultural and social institutions, welfare and support institutions and the police force. They were confirmed by research experts. According to the results, among the social harms, the highest and lowest factor loads are related to individual factors and legal, institutional and governance factors, respectively. Also, among the social structures, the highest and lowest factor load is related to cultural and social institutions and social networks, respectively. Also, the results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between social structures and social injuries.
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General Received: 2024/04/20 | Accepted: 2023/12/1 | Published: 2023/12/1