The Relationship of Internet Addiction with Loneliness and Identity Styles
Journal Title: Journal of Science and today’s world - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The present study examines the relationship between internet addiction on the one hand and loneliness and identity styles of university students on the other hand. To this aim, a sample of 288 undergraduate students (108 male and 180 female) are chosen from of Psychology and Educational Sciences Faculty of Kharazmi University and Agronomy Faculty of Tehran University in educational year of 2009-2010. These students are selected from four faculties through cluster sampling. The research instruments used in this study include Young Internet Addiction Inventory (1998), Russell UCLA Loneliness Scale (1996), and Berzonsky Identity Styles Inventory revised by White and his colleagues (1998). According to the analysis of correlations, internet addiction has a positive and significant relationship with diffuseavoidant identity style. It also shows a negative and significant relationship with informational and normative identity styles. The results indicate that loneliness shows a negative and significant relationship with informational and normative identity styles and a positive and significant relationship with diffuse-avoidant identity style. The investigation also reveals that the differences in means for the two groups of Tehran Tarbiat Moallem University and Tehran University are not significant in the two scales of loneliness and internet addiction.
Authors and Affiliations
Mehdi Arabzadeh , Mohamad Bayanati, Fariborz Nikdel , Mahdieh Shafy Nadery , Ghader Naimi
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