Volume 23, Issue 148 (10-2016)                   RJMS 2016, 23(148): 36-43 | Back to browse issues page

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barati F, fekrazad H, sajadi H. Relationship between emotional attachment to FACEBOOK and tendency to Narcotic substance abuse. RJMS 2016; 23 (148) :36-43
URL: http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-3465-en.html
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Purpose: Facebook After Google is the most visited site and has most of the traffic on a daily basis. According to its popularity and qualitative and quantitative growth and substance abuse asa most important social worries, purpose of this research is examining the relationship between emotional attachment to FACEBOOK and tendency to narcotic substance abuse. Method: In this correlational study, 407 undergraduate students from the Universities of Nishabour were selected by quota sampling. Instruments included emotional attachment to facebook subscale from Intensity of facebook Scale Ellison, Eshteinfield and Lampe (2007) and the scale tendency to narcotic substances abuse derived from attitude to narcotic substances abuse questionnaire drug Rafiee et al (2012) is. The results of Pearson correlation and stepwise multiple regression were used, too. Result: Results showed a significant, direct and positive correlation (r=0/297 , p=0/001)between emotional attachment to Facebook and tendency to Narcotic substance abuse. Regression results indicated that emotional attachment to Facebook predict 7/5% of the variance tendency to narcotic substance abuse. Conclusion: Increasing of awareness and information of students about the consequences of their use of online social networks can be effective in reducing the negative effects of using these networks.

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