Prediction of Instagram Social Network Addiction Based on the Personality, Alexithymia and Attachment Styles

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Zeinab Sadat Ershad ¹ , Tahmoures Aghajani ²

1 - Department of Sociology, Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran
2 - Department of Sociology, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

Received: 2017-10-08 Accepted : 2017-10-08 Published : 2017-09-01

Keywords: personality, attachment, Students, alexithymia, discriminant analysis, Instagram,

Abstract :

Instagramis the fastest growing social network site globally. Instagram is an online, mobile phone photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social network service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and then share them on other platforms. The purpose of this study is to distinguish the student’s Instagramsocial network addiction by personality, alexithymia and attachment styles in Tehran city. In this correlational study, a group of 100 high school students (50 Instagramsocial network addicted and 50 non -addicted) as multi stage sampling are selected. The data collected by the questionnaires of Costa and McCrae (1982) personality scale, Bagboy, Parker and Taylor's twenty-item Toronto alexithymia scale (1994), Collins and Read attachment styles scale (1990) and researcher made Instagram. The obtained data were analyzed by using the technique of discriminated analysis. The results of the discriminant analysis showed that variables of neuroticism, alexithymia, ambivalent and avoidant attachment style can help in predicting how students are involved in Instagramaddiction. The study selected 81 percent of the students for their actual classification. The results of this study emphasized on relationship between neuroticism, alexithymia, ambivalent and avoidant attachment style with Instagramaddiction. Thus, the prevention and treatment of dependence to Instagrammentioned variables are very important.

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