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Background and Aim: Internet plays a growing role in the life of adolescents and young adults in the third millennium. The attractiveness of internet has caused that many adolescents and young adults prefer keeping company with computer rather than interacting with parents and peers. This may gradually reduce the pleasant experience of participation in the family and other groups and may eventually result in isolation and depression. This study was performed to assess the relationship between depression & social isolation among internet-user adolescents and young adults and the routine time duration they spend using internet. Method & Materials: This was a descriptive correlation study. The sample consisted of 118 adolescent and young adult internet users randomly selected from the usual clients of approved coffee-nets of Isfahan city at 2006. Beck Depression Inventory and a researcher made questionnaire were respectively used to assess depression and social isolation. Demographic data were also collected. Data were analyzed using SPSS- software and Spearman-Pearson correlation coefficient and independent groups T tests. Findings: Significant relationships were found between both depression and social isolation and the mean routine time duration of internet use (P Conclusion : Excessive internet use may cause hazards to adolescents' and young adults' mental health and social development. This issue needs further well-designed investigations. Families should be informed about the available evidences in this regard. Keywords: Internet, Adolescent, Young adult, Internet user, Depression, Social isolation.

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Aim and Background: The topic of Internet Addiction has continued to be hotly debated in the research discussion list. This study aimed to explore the path analysis of relationship between personality traits and internet addiction with quality of life and with internet addiction of users in reliable Coffee-nets in Isfahan city. Method and Materials: In this correlation research, the target population included all of users in Coffee-nets of Isfahan. With the use of multistage cluster sampling, 300 Coffee-net users were selected. Instruments used in this research were: Yang addiction of internet (1999) and WHOQOL-BREF (2005) and short version of personality traits (NEO-PI) (2005). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis by LISREL 8.5 . Findings: Total internet addiction was negatively related to three of the Big Four traits; extroversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness (P < 0.01). Finally conceptual framework was drawn by LISERE 8.5 . GFI test confirmed the conceptual framework factors and their interaction and correlation by calculating GFI (GFI = 0.91). Conclusions: The results indicated that conceptual framework was confirmed. It was found that personality traits significantly influence users&rsquo; internet addictions and quality of life; and internet addiction significantly impacts users&rsquo; quality of life.

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Aim and Background: Worldwide internet is known as one of the most outstanding information and communication technology and represents the technological advancement of modern humans. Its role in creating social changes is unavoidable. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between using social networks and internet addiction and depression among students. Methods and Materials: The study population consisted of all the students from Isfahan Payame Noor University, Iran. At first, all the studying fields were categorized into three groups of humanities, engineering and science. Then with random sampling, 345 students were selected. The data gathering tool included Beck&rsquo;s Depression Inventory, Young&rsquo;s Internet Addiction and researcher made questionnaires. Findings: There was a significant relationship between using social network and internet addiction (r = 0.147, P = 0.010). There was no significant relationship between using social network and depression (r = 0.55, P = 0.332). There was also a significant relationship between using social network and internet addiction regarding gender, age and education field variables. This difference was not significant among female and male age groups. But among the education fields, internet addiction was less observed in science compared to humanities and engineering fields.&nbsp; Conclusions: Internet due to its false appeals to users, slowly causes addiction and can satisfy the users psychological and emotional needs. Therefore, replacing interaction with people in the real world rather than social networking can help in developing emotional and social communications.

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Aim and Background:Sleep problems are highly prevalentamong adolescents. Etiology of sleep disorders in adolescents is very complex. This study aimed to determine the correlationbetween internet addiction and adolescents sleep disorder. Method and Materials:This study was conducted with a survey and cross-sectional design. Data were collectedfrom 535 adolescents (218 males and 317 females) in 2011 among those studying at high-schools ofYazd, Iran. These adolescents were selected using proportional stratified sampling method. Data collection toolsincludedinternet addiction test (IAT) and the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI). Data were analyzed using independent t statistics and hierarchical multiple regression tests. Findings:21.7% of the adolescents were addicted to internet and 57.2% of the adolescents had an adverse sleep quality. Addicted internet users had more adverse sleep quality (77.6%) rather than those normal internet users (51.6%). There was a significant difference between normal and pathological internet users, in terms ofoverallsleep quality (P < 0.01), subjective sleep quality (P < 0.01), sleep latency (P < 0.01), and daytime dysfunction (P < 0.01). Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis showed that internet addiction explained 4.7% of the variance of the quality of sleeping. Conclusions:Internet addiction is a powerful risk factor for adolescent&#039;s sleep quality and can increase the risk of sleep disorder among adolescents. Accordingly, in order to decrease thenegative effects of pathological internet use onadolescents&rsquo; sleep quality, behavioral and cognitive interventions for changing the internet use pattern seems necessary.

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Aim and Background: Internet access is a growing phenomenon. With increasing and widespread access to Internet, dependency to Internet is observed among the youth. This research aimed to compare personality characteristics and identity styles in Internet addicted and non-addicted students. Methods and Materials: This was a causal-comparative research carried out in the educational years 2011-2012. The statistical community of the research contained all the dormitory male students resided in Tehran University dormitory (about 6000 students). 380 students were selected via random sampling based on Morgan table. According to the population of each dormitory, related questionnaires were distributed and fulfilled, so that by referring to each one of the student rooms, questionnaires were delivered and collected after about 20 minutes. The study tools included Young`s Internet Addiction Test (IAD), Personality Inventory (NEO), and Berzonsky Identity Styles Inventory (ISI-6). In order to analyze data in two descriptive and analytic levels, statistic t-test was utilized. Findings: Results indicated that in terms of personality characteristics, there is a difference between Internet addicted and non-addicted students, so that neuroticism was in a higher level for Internet addicted students than for non-addicted ones. As well, the three variables of extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness were in a higher level for Internet non-addicted students than for addicted ones. There was, however, no difference between the two groups in terms of personality characteristics of openness to experience. There was also a meaningful difference between the two groups in terms of identity variables. Informational style was in a higher level for Internet non-addicted students than for addicted ones. As well, normative style and diffuse-avoidant style was in a higher level for Internet addicted students than for non-addicted ones. Conclusions: There is, in terms of personality characteristics and identity style, a difference between Internet addicted and non-addicted students.

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Aim and Background: The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the efficacy of quality of life (QOL) therapy on internet addiction, procrastination, and shyness of second grade high school female students in Kashan, Iran. Methods and Materials: The present research was a pretest-posttest and quasi-experimental study with a control group and follow-up. The statistical population consisted of second grade high school female students in Kashan, from among whom, 50 students were selected and randomly divided into two experimental (25 participants) and control (25 participants) groups. The participants answered the research instruments including the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (Solomon and Roth Blum), and Shyness Scale (Check and Boss). The experimental group received QOL therapy over 8 group sessions for 2 months. During this period, the control group received no intervention. The data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA. Findings: The results obtained from the data analysis indicated that QOL therapy was effective on addiction to internet, procrastination, and shyness in the posttest and follow-up stages (P < 0.05). Conclusions: With regard to the obtained results, it can be concluded that QOL therapy was effective on reducing addiction to internet, procrastination, and shyness of second grade high school female students in Kashan.

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Aim and Background: Internet addiction is a behavioral addiction in which a person becomes dependent on using the Internet or other online devices as an incompatible way to deal with life stressors, which has many consequences for the person. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of quality-of-life therapy on sensation seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers in adolescents with Internet addiction.
Methods and Materials: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with the control group. 30 teenagers with Internet addiction in Isfahan city in a targeted way according to the entrance criteria among teenagers who had Internet addiction; They were selected and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The intervention experimental group received quality of life therapy. And the control group did not receive any treatment. The questionnaires included Kimberly -Young's Internet Addiction (1998), Zuckerman's sensation seeking (1978), Zadeh Mohammadi's risky behaviors (2008) and relationships with peers by Razaghi et al. (2016). The data were analyzed through analysis of variance with repeated measures.
Findings: The findings showed that the therapeutic quality of life intervention had a significant effect on emotional seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers of the experimental group in the post-test and follow-up phase (P<0.001).
Conclusions: It can be said that the Therapeutic quality of life intervention intervention by using the principles and techniques of changing the conditions by changing the Therapeutic quality of life intervention can be used as an intervention to improve emotional seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers.

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Aim and Background: internet addiction is a psychosocial disorder that has had a dramatic effect on the adolescent and young generation in expanding societies, and has important consequences such as emotional turmoil, emotion, aggression, psychosis, adverse interpersonal relationships. The present study aimed at the effectiveness of reality therapy based on the quality of life of adolescents with internet addiction on excitement and peer relationships.
Methods and Materials: In the qualitative stage, it was a phenomenological method, and 15 teenagers were selected and interviewed from among teenagers with Internet addiction under counseling in the counseling centers of Isfahan city. With Claizi's method, 9 main concepts and 33 secondary concepts were extracted and based on them, a reality therapy package based on quality of life was compiled. In the quantitative stage, it was a semi-experimental method with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group and a follow-up period. 30 teenagers with internet addiction were selected by purposeful sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received reality therapy intervention based on quality of life during two months in ten sessions of 120 minutes. The questionnaires used included internet addiction, sensation seeking and relationships with peers.
Findings: The results of variance analysis with repeated measurements showed that reality therapy based on quality of life has a significant effect on excitement seeking and relationships with their peers in the post-test and follow-up stages (P<0.001).
Conclusions: The results showed that quality of life-based reality therapy intervention of adolescents with internet addiction using the principles of quality of life and the theory of choice theory can be used as an effective intervention to improve excitement and relationships with their peers