Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

This research has done with the aim of analyzing, mothers' religious orientation in prediction of negative or positive adolescents' attitude toward delinquency. for this descriptive – correlation research, from the mothers and their children who lives in hamedan city, 200 person (100 mother, 100 children) were selected with random clustering method, mothers received Allport religious orientation questionnaire and their children received attitude toward delinquency. For analyzing datas we use Pearson correlation coefficient and linear multiple regression. The results indicated that there is a negative relation between mothers' introvert religious orientation and adolescents' positive attitude toward delinquency and a positive relation between this religious orientation and negative attitudes toward delinquency, and there is no relation between mothers' extrovert religious orientation and negative or positive attitude toward delinquency. The results of regression analyzing also indicated that mothers introvert religious orientation explains 23 percent of positive attitude toward delinquency variance and 47 percent of negative attitude toward delinquency. This results indicate that weak introvert religious orientation specially mothers orientation could be one of the dangerous reasons of delinquency in adolescent. And for preventing different kinds of social damage in adolescent specially preventing from delinquency we can use capacity of mothers religious orientation.