Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral ‎Sciences Research Center, Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, faculty of medicine, Mashhad University Of Medical Sciences, ‎Mashhad, Iran, ‎
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Associate Professor of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. the Department of ‎Psychology,Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran‎
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Assistant professor. Department of Education, Islamic Azad University. Torbat-e-Jam Branch. ‎Torbat-e-Jam. Iran
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clinical psychology, Torbat-e-Jam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e-Jam, Iran.‎
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Department of Psychiatry, Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, faculty of ‎medicine, Mashhad University Of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, ‎
Abstract
Introduction
The Internet is one of the most powerful tools of development in the contemporary world, but excessive use of the Internet will cause Internet addiction. this article examines the prediction of Internet addiction on the basis of sensation seeking and brain-behavioral systems among Azad University of Mashhad’s students
Material and method
A correlation with regression analysis research has been performed on 92 Students of Azad University of Mashhad, including 44 male and 48 female during 2016 .All students completed the research questionnaire including; demographic characteristics data,young internet addiction, Zuckerman's sensation seeking and brain-behavioral systems. Data were then analyzed using spss software.
Results
Findings showed that there is a correlation between the addiction to the Internet and the components of female student’s brain-behavioral systems, including drive, searching for entertainment, behavioral activation system (BAS), behavioral inhibition system (BIS) but this correlation was not significant and there is only a positive relationship with the response to reward component. No significant relationships between these components have been found among male students. The correlation between Internet addiction and sensation seeking has been significant and positive and this correlation between internet addiction and disinhibition component was significant and negative,while the correlation coefficient between Internet addiction and boredom susceptibility and experience seeking components was not meaningful.
Conclusion
Based on the results, there was a direct and significant relationship between internet addiction and sensation seeking although this relationship was a little bit weaker in relation to the role of brain-behavioral systems, despite being related
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