Introduction: Behavioral dependence on the Internet, regardless of whether it is considered a psychological injury or a social problem, is a chronic and recurrent phenomenon that is associated with serious physical, financial, family, social and psychological harm, and in this regard, factors such as psychological, Cognitive, familial and social factors are involved. The goal of this study is t...

Background and Aim: Nowadays, Internet is known as an attractive source of health information to manage individual's health.  Given the importance of it, this study examined the role of Internet in health information seeking behavior among young people in Shiraz.      Method: This research was a survey which target population were youth Internet users in the city of Shiraz.  A sample of 400 we...

Background and Aim: Internet has become an effective medium to transfer new scientific and research findings, knowledge and information in educational processes across the world. It also facilitates essential communication among millions of people globally and offers users plenty of entertainment for their leisure time. However, excessive computer use interferes with daily life and carries a ri...

Introduction: Family relationships play an incredibly important role in the lives of individuals and these relationships represent the most enduring social institution This study aimed the model of structural relations of cyber-aggression based on family communication pattern with the mediating  role of addiction to Internet. Methods: This study was descriptive-correlational and the statistical...

Background and Objectives: The Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIUQ) is a scale for evaluating the adverse effects of high Internet usage. It was adopted into Persian in a previous study. The factorial structure of the adopted version was different from the original English version. The purpose of this study was to determine the factorial structure of the Persian version of the Problema...

Fast growth and easy access to the internet have fasilitated its influence of the youngs' way of life. besides its several benefits, this tool is subject to the problem of overuse which has become apparent resulting in”Internet Addction”. hence the need for investigate the factores involved in this problem is important. As such, the present study investigated the role of identity st...

The current study attempts to investigate the prevallence of Internet addiction among high-school girls in Tehran. Another goal is to determine if female Internet addicts in Tehran show the same problems as addicts in other countries, such as more loneliness, and lower self-esteem and social skills. A total of 939 high-school girls in three grades and three fields from five areas of Tehran were...

Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is a growing attention in the media and among researchers has been conceptualized as a category of behavioral addictions and different diagnostic criteria have been proposed for it. Although there is no consensus on the correct diagnosis of Internet addiction disorder, co-morbidity is its first concern. The main objective of the present study was to investigate...

Choosing a superior Internet network by users or providing a desirable Internet network by ISPs is always one of the important decision issues in this area. Choosing a unique optimal network from among the best networks is still a big challenge. The purpose of this paper is to use the data envelopment analysis (DEA) decision-making technique to evaluate the existing Internet networks in order t...