The relationship between family functioning and internet addiction in Ahvaz medicine student

Foroug Riahi1,

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Domains using the Internet every day is becoming more widespread and the number of users who use the Internet for addiction is increasing day by day.And this despite the fact that Internet addiction can be harmful effects on family life, especially family life and function of the user. This study aimed to investigate the effects of Internet addiction on family functioning is designed for medical students Methods: The method used in this research is descriptive - analytical.94 medical student aged 20-30 years were selected using a strified random sampling sterategy and divided two 47 members groups and one 47 members group selected randomaly from general population. For this purpose, the 2 questionnaires 1-internet addiction Test (IAT) and 2-family function assessment dievice questionnaire (FAD) was used. for data analysis software were used spss. Results: The calculated t-test 0.041 with a significance level of 0.03 can be concluded that the Family functioning scores between students with Internet addiction and student without Internet addiction has significant difference. Conclusion: Internet addiction caused a decline in students family functioning.

Keywords: Internet addiction, family function, medical students