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Authors

• hajar khabaz ¹
• Mohsen Ayati ²
• mohammad rezaei ³

¹ Ph.D. student of psychology, Allame University

² Associate Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Birjand, Iran.

³ Master of Educational Psychology, Allameh University

Abstract

 
The present study aimed at investigating the extent and type of use of the internet with the students' attitude regarding the effect of the internet on sleep disorder and nervous ticks. The study was experimental in nature and the data collection method was correlational. The sample was 249 student-internet-users both male and female. They were selected based on their availability. In order to collect the data, a researcher-made attitude-meter was used. The meter was examined by a group of 15 experts and affirmed both content- and form-wise. The cronbac alpha in the attitude-meter of the internet's effect for sleep disorder and nervous ticks was /85 in this study and /81 in another one. In order to analyze the data, the multiple-variable regression method was used in a step by step manner. The results showed that the multiple correlational coafficent was /39 which means the extent and the type of the use of the internet can be the predictive variable interpreting the variation of the dependent variable at about /16. Furthermore, it was found that the extent of the use of some of the internet's applications such as social networking like Facebook had a positive relationship with an increase in sleep disorder and nervous ticks. The extent of the use of the some other applications such as educational websites had a negative relationship with the dependent variable

Keywords

• sleep disorder"
• "tick"
• " internet"
• "student