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...

BACKGROUND Internet addiction disorder is an interdisciplinary phenomenon and it has been studied from different viewpoints in terms of various sciences such as medicine, computer, sociology, law, ethics, and psychology. The aim of this study was to determine the association of psychiatric symptoms with Internet addiction while controlling for the effects of age, gender, marital status, and edu...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to internet game addiction for adolescents. METHOD This study was a cross-sectional survey, and data was collected through self-report questionnaires. Data was analyzed using the SPSS program. RESULTS In logistic regression analysis, the risk of being addicted to internet games was 2.22 times higher in males than females. Adol...

The Mental health of medical students is great importance, but are faced with interpersonal confusion, lack self-confidence, reverse psychology, anxiety and depression, Internet addiction, other prominent problems, mental problems closely related to their family economic conditions, structure, parent's education level, especially the parent-child relationship, including parenting style family. ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms (ADHS) with severity of Internet addiction risk (SIAR), while controlling the effects of variables such as depression, anxiety, anger, sensation seeking and lack of assertiveness among university students. Cross-sectional online self-report survey was conducted in two universities among a repre...

BACKGROUND Addiction to computer (video) games in adolescents and its relationship with educational progress has recently attracted the attention of rearing and education experts as well as organizations and institutes involved in physical and mental health. The current research attempted to propose a structural model of the relationships between parenting styles, mothers' occupation status, an...

Although previous studies have concluded that Internet use can help students in learning and research, a number of empirical investigations have confirmed that Internet addiction or excessive Internet use has negative effect on students. Thus, if the Internet does not always benefit students, under which conditions can Internet use have positive effects? Since students’ beliefs in their academi...

introduction: online medicare is a method in which parts of a medical process, whether its diagnostics, monitoring or the treatment itself will be completed by using online services. at the first step the students were registered for using the system. they participated in estimating depression scale; anxiety scale and clinical interview by online medical care system.  subsequently, the lab exam...