Investigating the effect of personality traits on the tendency to use cyberspace and become addicted to it in married women

Fatemeh Azarin¹ Ali Rezaeisharif²

1) Master student of educational sciences, school counseling orientation
2) Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Mohaghegh Ardabili University

IOI Code : XDFF-FCGDK
Publication : 3rd Natinal Conference on Social Pathology(asibuma.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between five-factor personality style, cyberspace addiction and the tendency to use cyberspace. Married women in Ardabil were selected as the study for this purpose. The research method is descriptive (non-experimental) and survey type and using the obtained data to examine the possible relationships between the five dimensions of personality as an independent variable, cyberspace addiction and the tendency to use cyberspace. Is treated as a dependent variable. The statistical comprehensive of all married women is that the sampling method is available and the sample size is 60 people. Three questionnaires were used to conduct this research. To evaluate the five personality factors (extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, adaptability and conscientiousness) of the five-factor questionnaire of neo-personality traits (60 items), and to measure cyberspace addiction of the Young Questionnaire (1998) and The Slanbay (2008) questionnaire was used to determine the tendency to use cyberspace. All three questionnaires were standard and their validity was again confirmed by the opinion of respected professors and experts and their reliability was obtained using Cronbach s alpha criterion. Data analysis in SPSS software environment was examined according to the research hypotheses. Findings of confirmatory factor analysis showed that five personality factors were confirmed for the appropriateness of personality assessment and also the components of the tendency to use cyberspace in determining the tendency to cyberspace were confirmed and the indicators of cyberspace addiction were also confirmed in the sample. The results of the analysis showed that there is a significant relationship between personality traits and cyberspace addiction and between cyberspace addiction and the tendency to use cyberspace, but the existence of a significant relationship between personality traits and the tendency to use cyberspace was not confirmed.

Keywords : five factor personality cyberspace addiction desire to use cyberspace married women