Study of Loneliness and Identity Styles among Internet Addicted Students in Faculty of Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

Touraj Bnirostam,Hayedeh Saberi

doi:10.28991/esj-2017-01119

Abstract

Application of new technologies is an obvious effects of today world. Internet as a newborn tool of contemporary technology world, plays an important role in change of people's life. Internet now is a necessary tool of modern era which makes it an inevitable component of everyday life. The present study aims to investigate level of sense of loneliness, identity styles and Internet Problematic Use among students. This is a descriptive survey study whose statistical population is all of the students of Technical - Engineering Faculties of Islamic Azad University in 1394-95 (2015-2016) in Tehran, using Multistage Cluster sampling method. 3 questionnaires, sense of loneliness, identity styles and internet addiction, have been selected for gathering data. Data analysis have been carried out by SPSS software. The results indicate that sense of loneliness is higher than two other variances which in turn end in internet addiction and identity disorders.

Highlights

Along with wide access to internet, we are witnesses of a newcomer addiction, specific to the Information Age: Internet Addiction
It is proposed that sense of loneliness plays an important role in development of internet addiction, which makes it necessary to investigate about relation of this variance to internet addiction
Statistical indicators related to identity styles, sense of loneliness and internet addiction of sample population were evaluated

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Introduction

Along with wide access to internet, we are witnesses of a newcomer addiction, specific to the Information Age: Internet Addiction. Especially adolescents and young adults, at the same time with expanding virtual relations, experience shrinking of relationship scope in real world [1]. Loneliness is not merely being alone; rather it can be defined as an unpleasant cognitive state causing by perception of difference between desirable relationships and available ones [2]. It is proposed that sense of loneliness plays an important role in development of internet addiction, which makes it necessary to investigate about relation of this variance to internet addiction. Some researchers suggested that sense of loneliness is one of the best antecedents of internet addiction, but few experimental studies have been dedicated to this issue. Most of literature indicates that internet addiction leads to sense of loneliness, whilst others know internet addiction as the main cause of sense of loneliness. There is not clear study results about the issue [3]

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