Although the internet has become one of the most important information resources for university students, excessive internet use can be defined as uncontrolled and harmful use of the internet, in other words, Internet Addiction. Internet addiction (IA) can be described as a maladaptive preoccupation with internet use impairing social, occupational and other areas of a person’s functioning. Rece...

The key competences for sustainable development, among which is digital competence, will not be achieved without the integration of values in education. objective this research was to identify and analyze relationships between taught schools mobile addiction. study design predictive correlational. sample consisted 1453 students primary secondary education (61.3% women; 38.7% men). findings have...

Excessive smartphone use causes personal and social problems. To address this issue, we sought to derive usage patterns that were directly correlated with smartphone dependence based on usage data. This study attempted to classify smartphone dependence using a data-driven prediction algorithm. We developed a mobile application to collect smartphone usage data. A total of 41,683 logs of 48 smart...

Background: One of the most challenging aspects of today's technology is mobile social networking which has had a different effect on the health and social life of individuals. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between the use of mobile-based social networks and general health. Methods: This analytical and cross-sectional correlation study was done on 295 staff of Bush...

objective: we aimed to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and alexithymia with vulnerability to drug abuse among students. methods: the study method was descriptive and correlational. in this study, 483 male high-school students from salmas city, iran were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. all participants completed the toronto alexithymia scale, general self-effica...