Surveying the Relationship between Psychological Disorders and Spending Time on Facebook

  • Rad N
  • Hassan T
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Abstract

Introduction: This research is a descriptive and correlational research which has been done with the purpose of surveying the relationship between mental disorders and the amount of time that people spend on Facebook. 147 members out of Facebook active users were chosen randomly. Then epidemiology questionnaire of mental disorders (SCL-90-R) was used to collect data. Data analysis was done using Spearman correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The results showed that there was a significant relation between characters such as aggression, obsession, psychosis, paranoia, depression and using Facebook (p < 0.05), but this relation was not significant in anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, physical complaints and phobia. Furthermore, this relationship was significant regarding to subjects’ gender and marital status (p < 0.05), but there was no relationship regarding to their age.

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Rad, N. Y., & Hassan, T. (2017). Surveying the Relationship between Psychological Disorders and Spending Time on Facebook. Social Networking, 06(02), 197–205. https://doi.org/10.4236/sn.2017.62012

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