Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect roles of psychiatric symptoms, social support, and meaning in life in predicting internet addiction among university students. Methods: The study was performed in a cross-sectional design by employing the path analysis to explore the model fitting. All the students at Kerman University of Medical Sciences constituted t...

conclusion about half of the participants in this study were at risk of internet addiction. this finding can be a warning sign for the authorities in universities to pay more attention to this issue. a wide range of education along with empowering programs may be needed to inform the university students about the advantages and disadvantages of internet and the correct manner of using it. resul...

regarding competitive world, economic factors and socialfactors could be effective on business. the social network has animportant role as social characteristics, propulsion and basic force forsocial cohesion in internet business activities. the purpose of this paper isto examine the impact of social networks on the internet businesssustainability by intermediation of entrepreneurial intention....

this article proposes a revised technology acceptance model to measure customers ‘acceptance of internet banking, in iran. this study uses the technology acceptance model, theory of planned behavior and theory of perceived risk to build a comprehensive model. we designed a questionnaire and used it to survey a randomly selected sample of customers of internet banking, and in june 2010, a sample...

This study examines the associations of internet information literacy with two variables: (1) the ability to work with technical aspects of the internet (internet skill), and (2) attitudes about the need for qualitative necessities in the development of e-services. A hierarchical regressions software analyzes data from a national sample of 2134 internet users. In this paper, internet literacy i...