Investigate the Relationship between Accountability and Defensive Styles Internet Addiction of High School Youth in Qazvin in Female Students

Abstract

Purpose: The Purpose of the present study was to investigate the prediction of Internet addiction in adolescents in Qazvin based on responsibility and defensive styles.Methodology: The research method was descriptive-correlational in terms of applied data collection method and quantitative data type in terms of data type. The statistical population of all high school students in Qazvin was in the academic year of 2019-20. Using the stepwise cluster sampling method, 325 people were selected as the sample size. Internet addiction questionnaires (Yang, 1996), Responsibility (California, 1948) and Defense Styles (Anders et al, 1993) were used to measure the variables studied. The analysis of the information obtained from the implementation of the questionnaires was performed through SPSS20 software in two descriptive and inferential sections (Pearson correlation, step-by-step regression).Findings: The results showed that responsibility is negatively associated with Internet addiction. Growing defense mechanisms are negatively associated with Internet addiction and have a positive relationship with underdeveloped and psychotic defense mechanisms. Also, the results of step-by-step regression analysis showed that responsibility along with developed defense mechanisms and psychologically impaired defense mechanisms can explain 10% of Internet addiction variance.Conclusion: Addiction is associated with the influence of conscientious personality and developed defensive styles and disorders I and II, and people with conscientious personality with less developed defensive styles are less addicted to the Internet.