This study was conducted aimed to survey internet addiction prevalence rate among Orumiyeh universities' students and examine the relation between addiction to internet and students' anxiety and their major. For this, 330 students (167 boys and 163 girls) from Orumiyeh universities were randomly selected based on multi-stage cluster sampling and simultaneously answered to internet-bank addictio...

Background and Aim: The Internet is a strong and multimedia technology that meets the most basic needs of human beings; however, this new technology can have great negative effects on people's lives. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of Internet addiction and its relationship with quality of sleep and quality of life among students of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.          ...

Background and Objectives: Media literacy training is one of the basic requirements; therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of media literacy training in adolescent Internet addiction. Materials and Methods: The quasi-experimental research method was pretest-posttest with a control group. From the statistical population that included all male students of the first ...

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between family communication patterns with the tendency toward high-risk behaviors and internet addiction. The statistical population included all students of the Azad University South Tehran Branch in the 1397-98 academic year. Using the convenience sampling method, 220 students entered th...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mobile phone harmful use and internet addiction with the emotional divorce of female teachers in Kermanshah. The statistical population of this study included all married female teachers in Kermanshah city in 1969-97. Using multi-stage cluster sampling, 269 people were selected as sample based on Morgan's table. The questionn...

Background and Objectives: The Internet can be a useful and effective, and sometimes due to inappropriate use, endangers the mental health of users, and this has been the case in recent decades as one of the addictive factors.One of the effects of this addiction is to cause depression among people. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between internet addic...

Sleep is one of the most important processes of circadian cycles that play a major role in mental and physical health, especially during adolescence. The purpose of the present study was to predict the quality of sleep in students based on anxiety sensitivity, Internet addiction, and mindfulness. The present study is descriptive research in terms of purpose and correlational in terms of method....