Comparison of marriage expectation and addiction to virtual social networks in single girls with and without experience of a relationship with the opposite sex

Hamideh Yazdani¹ Ayyob Saqqezi² Hoda Abbasi³

1) M.A Student of Psychometric, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2) M.A. Student of Family Counseling, Counseling Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
3) Master student of educational psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

IOI Code : XDKB-FGFKC
Publication : 1St National Conference on Social and Psychological Injuries with Emphasis on Behavioral Sciences(psysconf.ir/1st)
Abstract :
    The aim of this research was to compare the expectation of marriage and addiction to virtual social networks in single girls with and without experience of a relationship with the opposite sex. This research method was a descriptive causal-comparative. The statistical population consisted of all students of Payame Noor university of Qom in the academic year 2019 -2020, of which 266 selected by available sampling method. The results showed that the mean of addiction to virtual social networks and realistic and idealistic expectations, was higher in the group without relationship experience with the opposite sex than in the group with the relationship experience with the opposite sex. The mean of pessimistic expectations in the first group was than in second group (P <0.05).

Keywords : expectation of marriage addiction to virtual social networks experience of relationship with the opposite sex