TY - JOUR JF - umsha JO - Avicenna J Clin Med VL - 17 IS - 2 PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/9/01 TI - A Survey of Relationship between Psychiatric Symptoms and Internet Addiction in Students of Isfahan Universities TT - بررسی ارتباط علائم روانپزشکی با اعتیاد به اینترنت دردانشجویان دانشگاه های شهر اصفهان N2 - Introduction & Objective: Some researches have shown that 14% of internet users suffer from OCD behaviors, psychosis status, depression, and etc. Also, in other studies characteristics such as social withdrawal, low self esteem, etc have been considered. This study aims to investigate internet addiction and its relationship to psychiatric symptoms. Materials & Methods: In order to perform this descriptive and cross-sectional research ,a total of 120 students of Isfahan universities was selected based on quota sampling .The samples completed demographic questionnaires, YDQ, Internet Addiction Test(IAT) ,and Symptom Checklist-90-Revision(SCL-90-R). Finally, scores of psychiatric symptoms were predicted by internet addiction scores. Also, mean psychiatric symptoms in internet addicted and non addicted were compared. The data was analyzed using Multiple Logistic Regression & MANCOVA by SPSS12 Software. Results: Based on our findings ,there are significant differences between mean psychiatric symptoms in all of SCL-90-R subscales and GSI,PSDI,PST in addicted and non addicted (P SP - 57 EP - 65 AU - Alavi, Salman AU - Maracy, Mohammadreza AU - Jannatifard, Fereshteh AU - Eslami, Mahdi AU - Haghighi, Mohammad AD - KW - Internet KW - Psychiatric Symptoms KW - Students UR - http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-281-en.html ER -