Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology & Educational Management, Shahid Beheshti Farhangian University, Eghlid, Iran.
2 Master of Clinical Psychology, Azad University, Firoozabad, Iran.
3 Masterof Financial Management, Azad University, Neiriz. Iran.
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between clinical disorders and parenting styles with addiction to computer games in first secondary school students in Niriz city. The research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive of the correlational type based on the method of data collection. The statistical population included the students of the first secondary school students in Niriz (990 people) in the year 1402-1403, and 100 people were selected as a sample using the staged cluster sampling method. To collect data, SCL-90-R test, Diana Bamrind's Parenting Styles Questionnaire (1971) and Anturan's (2008) Computer Game Addiction Questionnaire were used. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and step-by-step regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between clinical disorders and students' addiction to computer games. There is a negative and significant relationship between the assertive parenting styles and the dependence of students on computer games and there is a positive and significant relationship between the authoritarian and permissive parenting styles and the dependence of students on computer games. Also, physical complaint, anxiety, neuroticism and agreeableness were the strongest variables for predicting students' addiction to computer games.
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