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Prior research has attempted to investigate creativity as a behavior resulting from the interaction between the cognitive abilities, social environment and personal characteristics, but very little research has look at the role of environment characteristics on Emersion Adolescent Creativity. Hence, this article focuses on the effect of socioeconomic status on emerging adolescent creativity. In other words, family economic status, father’s education and mother’s education are the three dimensions of socioeconomic status. This exploratory correlational research study examines the relationship between family economic status, father’s education and mother’s education with adolescent creativity. The sampling method was employed to select the proportion of participants using stratified and multi-stage cluster random sampling. The population of the sample was 546 high school students in Education Region 4, Tehran. The participants, 249 males and 297 females, completed two questionnaires. The adolescents completed a Demographic Characteristics Questionnaire and Abedi Creativity Questionnaire, which were used as the measuring tools in this study. The results show a significant positive correlation between family economic status and creativity (p < .01), and between parent education and creativity (p < .01). Interestingly, the analyses revealed a strongly significant positive correlation between parent education and creativity (p < .01), although none was found between males and females on creativity. Conclusions were tempered by the limitations of small to moderate correlations and small effect sizes

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Women involvement in drug abuse has adverse impacts not only to the nation but also impose great challenges to achieve stable family structures. Therefore, this article aims to explore the experiences of women drug user in Malaysia with reference to their drug abuse activity and identify the level of family relationship they possess. This research used quantitative method and cross-sectional survey. A total of 120 women at the Center of Drugs Recovery and Narcotic Rehabilitation (PUSPEN), Bachok, Kelantan were chosen using stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. The results of the study showed that 39.5 percent of women inmates started getting involved in drug activities at the age of 15-20 years, 79 percent had been arrested for the first time to undergo a rehabilitation process, majority of them (54.6 percent) reported to use drugs on regular basis and more than half of the respondents (63 percent) admitted that they obtained drugs supplies from drug dealers. Analysis of drug using pattern reveals that syabu (75.6 percent) and heroin (61.3 percent) are the most popular drugs used by the inmates. Finding also showed that majority (60.5 percent) of drug inmates engaged in moderate level of family relationship. Findings from this research yielded wide implications to improve drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs in an institution, particularly among women drug users in Malaysia

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