internet panderism, in today’s society, is a crime which, due to technological advances, has spread significantly and perhaps, in comparison to traditional panderism, it causes far more losses. since it is unprecedented, the ruling of internet panderism has not been considered even by contemporary islamic jurists. after mentioning some examples of internet panderism and a detailed review, the a...

background:     purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     key words:     ict, esp, medical students , methodology instruction based on ict specialized articles is a more effective method for teaching esp to the students of medicine linguistically and methodologically. the students achieved better results with internet-based medical english articles, compared to the traditional text...

Background: Excessive utilization of electronic media may affect the individuals' health and quality of sleep. This study aimed to investigate sleep quality of the college students based on their diets and duration of time spent on the internet. Methods: In this cross-sectional web-based study, 385 students were selected randomly from the Qazvin University. Data was collected by a self-administ...

objective: the most commonly used instrument for the research and treatment of excessive internet use is young’s internet addiction test (iat). while the iat has been translated to several languages (including persian) and has demonstrated good psychometric properties across several independent studies, there is still a room for alternative assessment instruments. this study reports a validatio...

The use of social network sites (SNSs) has been booming in the world and it represents the new way of social interactions. The reports of problematic forms of Internet usage brought attention to this issue. Current study examines the correlation between subscales of identity styles and social skills with problematic internet use among Facebook users. Furthermore, this study aimed to find the pr...