Predicting Internet Addiction Based on Aggression, Law-aversion, and Hyperactivity in High School Students

Subject Areas : Educational

farhad ghadiri ¹ ( Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran. )
karim abdolmohamadi ² ( Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Department of Psychology, Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran )
sina sheikhi ³ ( Family Counseling, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar Branch, Iran )
khoshdavi ebrahimzade ⁴ ( Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran )

Received: 2020-06-03 Accepted : 2020-12-06 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: internet addiction, high, aggression, Law-Aversion, hyperactivity, Students,

Abstract :

Internet addiction is a type of impulse control disorder that refers to the excessive use of the internet, the purpose of this study is to investigate the question of whether aggression, law-aversion, and hyperactivity in adolescents can predict Internet addiction? This research is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study was all high school students in the 2019-20 academic year of Urmia schools, from which 400 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. In this study, The Achenbach Youth Self-Report Scale (Achenbach, 1991) and Internet Addiction Questionnaire (Young,1998) were used to collect information. Data were analyzed using simultaneous regression analysis. The results of this study showed that aggression and hyperactivity significantly predict students' internet addiction (p< 0/01) Also, law-aversion has no significant effect on predicting internet addiction. According to the findings of the present study, by reducing the level of aggression and hyperactivity in students, the tendency to Internet addiction can be reduced.

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