Zamani Bibi Eshrat, Abedini Yasamin, Kheradmand Ali
Associate Professor, School of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Assistant Professor, School of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Addict Health. 2011 Summer-Autumn;3(3-4):85-91.
The new phenomenon of Internet addiction among teenagers and young adults is one of the modern addictions in industrial and post-industrial societies. The purpose of this research was to predict the Internet addiction based on the personality characteristics of high school students in Kerman.
This research was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population included 538 male and female students in the second grade of high school in Kerman during 2010. The subjects were randomly selected by multistage clustering. Data was collected by two questionnaires including the five-factor Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Internet dependency questionnaire. The data was analyzed using ANOVA test and multivariable regression analysis.
The findings showed a significant relationship between the personality trait of emotional stability and academic fields, i.e. students with higher emotional stability experience less negative emotions when confronting with problems. Therefore, it is less likely for them to alleviate the negative emotions by the extreme and obsessed usage of the Internet. In addition, it appears that the students with high extroversion scores prefer social, face to face interactions with other people to interaction with the virtual world. Conversely, more introvert students avoid interactions with other people due to their shyness. Thus, they communicate with the virtual world more.
Three personality traits of loyalty, emotional stability, and extroversion are the most significant predictors of Internet addiction in high school students.
青少年和青年中出现的网络成瘾这一新现象是工业社会和后工业社会中的现代成瘾问题之一。本研究的目的是基于克尔曼高中生的人格特征来预测网络成瘾情况。
本研究为描述性相关性研究。统计总体包括2010年克尔曼市高中二年级的538名男女学生。通过多阶段聚类随机选取研究对象。数据通过两份问卷收集，包括修订版的大五人格问卷和网络依赖问卷。数据采用方差分析和多变量回归分析进行分析。
研究结果表明情绪稳定性这一人格特质与学术领域之间存在显著关系，即情绪稳定性较高的学生在面对问题时体验到的负面情绪较少。因此，他们通过极端且沉迷地使用网络来缓解负面情绪的可能性较小。此外，外向得分高的学生似乎更喜欢与他人进行社交性的面对面互动，而非与虚拟世界互动。相反，较为内向的学生由于害羞而避免与他人互动。因此，他们更多地与虚拟世界交流。
尽责性、情绪稳定性和外向性这三个人格特质是高中生网络成瘾最显著的预测因素。
