Iinvestigate the Relationship between loneliness, attachment styles and academic self-efficacy with Internet addiction among high school boy students
Subject Areas : Education Management
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Keywords: Loneliness, Attachment styles, Academic self-efficacy, Internet addiction,
Abstract :
Mahboubeh Soleimanpouromran corresponding author:* Assistant Professor, Department of Educational sciences, Bojnourd Branch , Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran Abstract Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between loneliness, attachment styles and academic self-efficacy with Internet addiction among high school students in bojnord. Materials and Methods: The statistical population of the study consisted of all male secondary school students in the city of bojnord in the academic, with 2800 people. Of these, 335were selected as sample and selected by cluster random sampling. The questionnaire was light Attachment Collins and Reid (1990), Russell's sense of loneliness questionnaire (1980), Educational self-efficacy questionnaire (CASE, Onan and Franmen) 1988), and Young's online addiction testing questionnaire (1998). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and analysis of variance. Results: Results showed that there is a meaningful relationship between loneliness and Internet addiction among students. Also, between Internet addiction with secure attachment style (875 / 0-), avoidant attachment style (0.880) and anxiety attachment style (0.725) were significant (p <0.05). This means that the relationship between online addiction and anxiety attachment style and direct anxiety attachment style with inverse attachment style are inverted. Conclusion: a significant relationship between self-efficacy and Internet addiction among students. It can also predict online addiction among students based on loneliness, attachment styles, and academic self-efficacy.
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