The Role of Cyberspace Use on Lifestyle Promoting Health and Coronary Anxiety in Young People

Objective: Today, one of the most important issues facing the young generation is cyberspace and the extent of its use, which unfortunately has increased irrationally with the coronavirus epidemic and has caused lifestyle disorders that need to be properly identified. Therefore, the present study aimed to identify the role of cyberspace use on lifestyle promoting health and coronary anxiety in young people. Method: The research method is descriptive post-event. The community included all undergraduate students of Tabriz Azad University, of which 327 people participated in the study through an online call, and the researcher-made questionnaires were designed to measure the use of cyberspace, Corona Anxiety Questionnaire of Alipour et al (2020). And the lifestyle promoters of Walker et al. (1987) responded. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance and post hoc test. Results: Findings show the components of lifestyle promoting health, subscales of spiritual growth (P = 0.001), responsibility (P = 0.016), interpersonal relationships (p = 0.033), exercise (P = 0/009) as well as the overall score of lifestyle (P = 0/001); And one of the components of Corona Anxiety is a subscale of psychological symptoms (P = 0.001) and also the total score of Corona Anxiety (P = 0.001) in groups related to the use of cyberspace is significant, And students who spent more than four hours using cyberspace scored lower on health-promoting lifestyles and higher on coronary anxiety components. Conclusion: The results show that excessive use of cyberspace has played a negative role in improving the health of students; Excessive and very little use of cyberspace also increases studentschr('39') anxiety and in this regard, it is suggested that the use of virtual social networks be managed by students.