The role of education in reducing the damage caused by the use of cyberspace in female high school students in Tehran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of education in reducing the damage caused by the use of cyberspace in high school girl students in Tehran's 5th District Education in a semi-experimental and pre-test post-test design with control group. The present society was divided into high school girl students in Tehran's 5th district of Tehran. They were randomly assigned to 60 students in two experimental and control groups. And the use of virtual environment was trained in 6 weeks (60 minutes each week) and the social harm reduction questionnaire was used in pre-test and post-test and its reliability was 0.82 by Cronbach's alpha was obtained. For data analysis, covariance test was used. The results of the study indicated that training on the use of virtual environment has led to decrease of family dissatisfaction, internet addiction, value conflict, social isolation and depression of students. In general, the implementation of the training program has reduced the number of cybercrime damage among students.