Study of Internet connection and depression in students of Amirkabir University of Technology

mostafa dordipour¹ farnaz ghassemi²

1) Master Student, Medical Engineering, Bioelectrics, Faculty of Medical Engineering, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran
2) Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

IOI Code : XEBA-GFEDC
Publication : Second National Conference on Futurism in Psychology and Educational Sciences(femconf.ir)
Abstract :
    Internet addiction has a negative effect on mental health and leads to clinical discomfort and disorders. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between Internet addiction and depression in students of Amirkabir University of Technology. This research is a descriptive-analytical study. The statistical population of this study was all students of Amirkabir University of Technology and 72 people were studied as the final sample of the study. In this study, two questionnaires of Young Internet Addiction (IAT) and Goldberg Depression (GSD) were used. In this study, descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation were used to evaluate the relationship between the variables under study. Among the students surveyed, 11 (12.2%) were in the non-addiction group in terms of Internet addiction and 61 (67.8%) were exposed to Internet addiction. The study of depression among students showed that out of 72 people, 53 people have mild to moderate depression and 19 people have moderate to severe depression. Also, according to the results of this study, there was a statistically significant relationship between Internet addiction and depression. Given the prevalence of Internet addiction among students and its significant association with depression, universities need to look for ways to control Internet addiction disorder among students.

Keywords : internet addiction depression statistical analysis