Iranian Journal of Rehabilitation Research in Nursing

Introduction: Regarding technological developments in recent years the phenomenon of addiction to internet has been negatively influenced the people's various psychosocial wellbeing of people. The present study has been carried out to compare the psychological wellbeing, social acceptance and adaptation among internet addicted and non-addicted student girls in Isfahan high schools. Methods: the method of the present study was causal-comparative. The statistical population of the study included all girls having internet addiction and normal girls at Isfahan high schools in 2012-13. In order to do the study, 30 high school student girls addicted to internet and 30 normal students were selected through multi-stage clustered random sampling method. The criterion of entering into the study was the permanent presence at high school and Internet Addiction Test score of 40 and above and the criteria of exit were having major physical or psychological problems. The applied instruments were questionnaire of psychological wellbeing, the questionnaire of social adaptation, social acceptance and the questionnaire of addiction to internet. The data were analyzed through MANOVA statistical method. Results: the results showed that there was a significant difference between groups (p<0.001), The results of univariate tests showed that the observed differences in multi-variate analysis were related to the variables of psychological wellbeing and social adaptation (p<0.001) and there was no any difference in the variable of social acceptance between two groups (p>0.001). Conclusion: considering the significant difference of the components of psychological wellbeing and social adaptation among internet addicted and non-addicted girls it seems necessary for the cultural and educational experts to organize courses in order to increase the students' and parents' awareness of adverse effects of excessive use of internet.