مقايسه احساس تنهايي و سلامت روان در نوجوانان وابسته به اينترنت و نوجوانان عادي

The present study compares loneliness and general health between normal and dependent to the Internet adolescents. 100 female high school students studying in the academic year90-91in Tehran participated in the study. Multi stage sampling method was employed to select 50 dependent and 50 normal participants. The present applied research is a causal-comparison non experimental study. Addiction to the internet questionnaire, general health GHQ, and the UCLA loneliness questionnaires served to obtain data. A parametric test of analysis of covariance (man ova) and a t-test were used for the purpose of the data analysis. The results revealed a significant difference between the internet- dependent and the internet- independent participants from general health and loneliness point of view.