Study of the Relationship between Internet Addiction and Anxiety: Determination of the Extent of Internet Addiction and Anxiety among Iranian Students

Today a great part of the world population use internet. Though this technology is of numerous benefits and has revolved communications in a positive way, unfortunately some studies attribute dangerous outcomes to it among them internet addiction may be mentioned. Thus present study aims to identify the extent of internet addiction and anxiety among Iranian students to see if there is a relationship between internet addiction and anxiety. Statistical population of present study comprised of 600 female high school students who used internet. Based on Cochran formula, 235 ones were selected as the sample using random classified sampling method. To gather data, Young (1998) Internet Addiction Scale and standard anxiety scale were used. After data analysis using measures of central tendency and dispersion and Pearson correlation, it was shown that there was a significant relationship between internet addiction and anxiety among female students and it was shown that the statistical population was at the risk for internet addiction and anxiety among this population was at a mild level.