Investigating factors that influence individual and family social support networks and virtual application online Among students of Tehran University

Subject Areas : Media Management

Farzaneh oji ¹ , Zahra Zare ² , Nahid kordi ³

1 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد علوم ارتباطات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران
2 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شرق
3 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شرق

Received: 2014-06-16 Accepted : 2014-06-16 Published : 2014-07-23

Keywords: Network, Social Cyber Network, Social Support, individual factors, Factors,

Abstract :

The most common a variety of social media virtual social networking account. Nowadays, social interaction, people aredrawn to cyberspace and virtual communication for the bulk of the users of the space.Join with others or groups andcommunities are entitled to protection. Wellman Habra’s social support, network theory. Survey methods and tools arequestionnaires on 300 students of Islamic Azad University were selected through a multistage cluster sampling is done.Information obtained by using inferential statistical tests such as (linear regression, Pearson coefficients, etc.) are analyzed.The results acquired by combining components in the context of received supports from social cyber network among respondants indicate that ٧ percent has been low , 45.7 percent has been medium and 47.3 percent has been a high rate. most of thereceived supports from cyber networks are emotional and informational and 32.7 percent of the respond ants have receivedlow , 91.7 percent have received medium and 5.7 percent have received high rate of support from families . Also , the mostreceived support from families has been classified into financial and advisory . the results of the research show that there is asignificant relation between demanded support from cyber networks and individual education variables (F =7.76), parentsliteracy (r = 0.111), responsive social base (r = 0.13), the intimacy among family members (r = -0.25), demanding supportfrom family (r = -0.24), but there is no relation among age and the occupation of the respond ant and rate and the type ofdemanded support from social cyber networks .