Comparing the Moral Intelligence, Social Skills and Personality Characteristics of Normal and Internet Addicted Adolescence

Background: Internet access is a growing phenomenon. With increasing and widespread access to Internet, dependency to Internet is observed among the adolescents. The present research was done with the purpose of comparing the moral intelligence, social skills and personality characteristics of internet addicted adolescents with normal adolescents. Method: We used casual – comparative method. Statistical population was consisted of all the male adolescents in the first zone of Tehran city in 2015-2016. We select 200 samples (80 internet addicted persons and 120 normal ones) by applying random cluster sampling method; the participants fell out four questionnaires including moral intelligence questionnaire (Lennick & Kiel) and Eysenck’s social skills, personality characteristics and internet addiction questionnaires. In order to analyze data, multivariate analysis of variance analysis was used. Results: The results showed that the social skills and moral intelligence in internet addicted adolescents was lower than normal adolescents and in the case of personality characteristics we noticed higher neuroticism and psychoticism in internet addicted adolescents compared with normal ones. Conclusion: In this research we got to this overall result that the internet addiction played a role in moral intelligence, social skills and personality characteristics of internet addicted adolescents.