#Internet #addiction #antecendants: #Self-control as a predictor
Authors: #Mohammad_Sadegh_Shirinkam, #Amir_Mohammad_Shahsavarani, #Leila_Moayer_Toroghi, #Mahdiye_Mahmoodabadi, #Alireza_Mohammadi and #Kolsum_Sattari
Abstract
#Internet_addiction is a result of #penetration of internet #technology to the #modern #world and has inundated a substantial proportion of #human #societies, so that many of mental professionals have considered it as a mounting threatening issue of mental health. Many factors are suggested to be of capability of #predicting internet addiction, include #self_efficacy and #self_control, whose roles are evaluated in this study. This survey study was conducted on 395 female and male #university #students of SardarJangal University, Rasht, Iran. #Instruments comprised #Internet #Addiction #Test , and Self-Control Scale (Tangney, 2004), which were administered by all participants. findings of #regression analysis showed that self-control has #significant negative relation with internet addiction (p<.05) and male students gained higher scores in internet addiction than females. Moreover, no significant difference was found among students of different university majors in internet addiction scores. It appears that self-control abilities can reduce the rate of internet addiction in university students. Therefore, future programs and plans of tri-layer #prevention can focus on teaching for self-control among university students as well as school-ageed students and families to deliberately decrease internet addiction in various sectors of society.
Keywords: #Internet_addiction, #self_control, #internet_addiction_disorder (#IAD), #Problematic_internet_use (#PIU),
#internet_addiction_prevention, #university_students.
http://ijmrhs.com/internet-addiction-antecendants-self-control-as-a-predictor/
Authors: #Mohammad_Sadegh_Shirinkam, #Amir_Mohammad_Shahsavarani, #Leila_Moayer_Toroghi, #Mahdiye_Mahmoodabadi, #Alireza_Mohammadi and #Kolsum_Sattari
Abstract
#Internet_addiction is a result of #penetration of internet #technology to the #modern #world and has inundated a substantial proportion of #human #societies, so that many of mental professionals have considered it as a mounting threatening issue of mental health. Many factors are suggested to be of capability of #predicting internet addiction, include #self_efficacy and #self_control, whose roles are evaluated in this study. This survey study was conducted on 395 female and male #university #students of SardarJangal University, Rasht, Iran. #Instruments comprised #Internet #Addiction #Test , and Self-Control Scale (Tangney, 2004), which were administered by all participants. findings of #regression analysis showed that self-control has #significant negative relation with internet addiction (p<.05) and male students gained higher scores in internet addiction than females. Moreover, no significant difference was found among students of different university majors in internet addiction scores. It appears that self-control abilities can reduce the rate of internet addiction in university students. Therefore, future programs and plans of tri-layer #prevention can focus on teaching for self-control among university students as well as school-ageed students and families to deliberately decrease internet addiction in various sectors of society.
Keywords: #Internet_addiction, #self_control, #internet_addiction_disorder (#IAD), #Problematic_internet_use (#PIU),
#internet_addiction_prevention, #university_students.
http://ijmrhs.com/internet-addiction-antecendants-self-control-as-a-predictor/