Predicting internet based psychological well-being, psychological distress, emotion regulation and loneliness in adults.

khadije zare ¹ (Senior Expert, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.) Somayyeh Rostampor ² (Msc in clinical psychology .department of psychology.üniversite of esfahan.esfahan,iran) امید امانی ³ (PhD in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding author))

Submited date : 2022-06-11 accepted date : 2023-02-21

Keywords: addiction to Internet, Psychological well-being, psychological distress, emotion regulation, loneliness.,

Abstract :

Internet addiction is a serious public health problem worldwide. Recent studies indicate the increasing trend of this addiction in adults; Therefore, the present study was conducted in order to predict Internet addiction based on psychological well-being, psychological distress, emotion regulation, and feelings of loneliness in adults. The current research method is a description of the correlation type and the sample of the study was 200 adult citizens of Tabriz city in 1400-1401 as available sampling. Internet addiction questionnaires by Young (1998), Riff's psychological well-being (2002), Kessler's psychological distress (2002), difficulty in emotion regulation by Ramer and Gratz (2004) and Russell's feeling of loneliness (1996) were used to collect data. It was analyzed using Pearson's correlation test and multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that among the four predictive variables (variables of psychological well-being, psychological distress, emotion regulation and loneliness of adults), three variables of psychological well-being, psychological distress and emotion regulation were able to predict Internet addiction (p<0.05). The direction of the relationship between psychological well-being and Internet addiction was negative, and the direction of the relationship between psychological distress and emotion regulation and Internet addiction was positive. Findings showed that loneliness could not predict Internet addiction. The findings of the present research show the importance of psychological variables such as psychological well-being, psychological distress, emotion regulation, in explaining addictive behaviors such as Internet addiction in adults.

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