The effect of emotional and social adjustment on students' online high-risk behaviors

Subject Areas : Educational

AliReza Savadkouhi ¹ , Masoud Sharifi ² , Omid Shokri ³

1 - Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2020-03-05 Accepted : 2020-04-27 Published : 2020-07-22

Keywords: coping, online relationships, first secondary students, adjustment, Adaptation,

Abstract :

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional and social adjustment on students' high-risk online behaviors. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population was the first high school students of Isfahan city in the academic year of 1398-99. 222 students were selected randomly as the sample group using Cochran formula. They responded to the Student Adjustment Questionnaire (Sinha & Sing, 1993) and The Problematic and Risky Internet Use Screening Scale (PRIUSS) (Jelenchick et al, 2014). The collected data were analyzed using regression analysis. The results showed that adaptation dimensions had a positive and significant role on online high risk behaviors (r = 0.368), (p <0.01). The results of regression analysis showed that 13.6% of the changes in online high risk behaviors can be predicted by emotional adjustment. Therefore the emotional adjustment alone was able to predict online high risk behaviors (p <0.01) and (t= 5.83). The ability of adaptation to predict online high-risk behaviors suggests that it can be a prerequisite for students' vulnerability to online high-risk behaviors. In other words, by reinforcing it in schools, it can reduce the harm associated with students' online behaviors.

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