خلاصة:
Objective: Psychologists have warned about the disadvantages of overusing Internet and a
new kind of addiction named Internet addiction. The present study intended to review the
role of both sensation seeking (directly and indirectly, by mediation of attachment styles) and
attachment styles (directly) in Internet addiction.
Methods: The present research was a cross-sectional study. Statistical population of the research
was all the students studying Bachelor’s Degree course at the Faculty of Psychology and
Educational Sciences of Allame Tabatabaei University. Of the total 420 individuals, 180 persons
(35 men and 145 women) were selected as members through convenience sampling method.
Zukerman’s Sensation Seeking, Collins and Read’s Attachment Styles and Young’s Internet
Addiction” questionnaires were applied to collect data, which were analyzed through structural
equation modeling using AMOS and SPSS 16.
Results: Findings demonstrated that the proposed model had adequate goodness-of-fit
indices (CMIN/DF: 1.67, GFI: 0.991, RMR: 0.001, CFI: 0.961 & RMSEA: 0.031). Sensation
seeking and attachment styles variables were directly related to Internet addiction. Meanwhile,
sensation seeking predicted internet addiction indirectly.
Conclusion: Considering the obtained results, sensation seeking, directly and indirectly, by
mediation of attachment styles is related to Internet addiction and can predict it. Attachment
styles variable also predicts Internet addiction directly.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Research Paper: Predicting Internet Addiction Based on Sensation Seeking: Mediation Effect of Attachment Styles Golnaz Mazaheri Nejadfard1, Farideh Hosseinsabet1* 1.
Zukerman’s Sensation Seeking, Collins and Read’s Attachment Styles and Young’s Internet Addiction" questionnaires were applied to collect data, which were analyzed through structural equation modeling using AMOS and SPSS 16.
Conclusion: Considering the obtained results, sensation seeking, directly and indirectly, by mediation of attachment styles is related to Internet addiction and can predict it.
According to prosocial- security hypothesis (Van Lange, Otten, De Bruin, & Joireman, 1997), secure attachment with parents could protect individuals from problem behaviors (such as In- ternet addiction), supposedly by (a) promoting individu- als’ adoption of conservative values (Brook, Whiteman, & Finch, 1993) and (b) reducing their sensation seeking need (Barnea, Teichman, & Rahav, 1992).
The prosocial-security hypothesis has received em- pirical support for late adolescence and undergraduates: in these studies, attachment security was meaningfully associated with more prosocial values and less sensa- tion seeking (Van Lange, Otten, De Bruin, & Joireman, 1997).
3. Results Table 1 illustrates the mean and standard deviation of each variable including sensation seeking, attachment styles and Internet addiction while Table 2 shows the cor- relations of variables.
The proposed model after fitting for relationship among sensation seeking, attachment styles and internet addiction .
Since the present re- search studied the relationships among sensation seek- ing, attachment styles and Internet addiction, the roles of social and cultural elements on the intended variables were not considered."