Marjan Al Behbahani; hasan momeni
Abstract
There have been numerous Internet opportunities in all aspects of life in the last few decades, but they have been followed by modern and diverse threats, such as Internet addiction. The main purpose of this study is to identify students' experience of Internet addiction. A qualitative method was used ...
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There have been numerous Internet opportunities in all aspects of life in the last few decades, but they have been followed by modern and diverse threats, such as Internet addiction. The main purpose of this study is to identify students' experience of Internet addiction. A qualitative method was used in this study and the Grounded Theory was used for data analysis. In-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted on 25 high school students. The sample size was also based on theoretical saturation and purposive sampling and the findings were validated by outside experts in addition to the analysis and review of the codes. The findings included 55 primary concepts and 9 main themes, namely "Internet addiction as pain-creating sympathizer". The identified main themes were self-avoidance, triple disorders (physical, sexual, and mental), connection management, systematic procrastination, school system repression, de-intimation and multi-dimensional facilitator. Finally, the main themes were formulated within the framework of Strauss and Corbin's five-fold model: underlying causes, contextual factors, intervening conditions, strategies and consequences
Farideh Hamidi; Majid Mahdiyeh Nejafabadi; Samaneh Namaziyan Nejafabadi
Abstract
Academic procrastination is one of the barriers to academic success and educational objectives. On the one hand, computers and internet as essential tools facilitate people’s life; on the other hand, they bring about new dangers and problems. One of these dangers can be ignoring academic success. ...
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Academic procrastination is one of the barriers to academic success and educational objectives. On the one hand, computers and internet as essential tools facilitate people’s life; on the other hand, they bring about new dangers and problems. One of these dangers can be ignoring academic success. The aim of the present study is to probe the relationship between internet addiction and academic procrastination among secondary school students. This research is a descriptive correlative study. The population of the study consisted of all secondary students of Najafabad city in 1393-94 school year. Using one-step cluster sampling one secondary school was selected. The sample included 124 students. Yang’s Internet Addiction Questionnaire and Savari’s Academic Procrastination Questionnaire were used as research instruments. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and Linear Regression. Results indicated that there is a positive relationship between internet addiction and academic procrastination (r=. /52, p≤. /01). Internet addiction predicts 26/9 percent of variance in academic procrastination. Among students non-addicted to internet the correlation reduced to r=./46 (P≤./01). In general, it can be concluded that internet dependence can be a strong predictor of academic procrastination. This prediction is weaker among non-addicted students. On the other hand, less internet dependence decreases procrastination. Based on obtained results, the need for implementing strategies to prevent and cope with internet dependence is inferred.
