The State of Cyber Deviations Among Students of Tehran Universities

Along with the proliferation of media technologies and the increasing presence of students in cyberspace, many researches have also been conducted on issues related to them. One of the emerging issues related to crimes and harassment that occur in cyberspace, which range from cracking software locks to cyberbullying. This article, with a sociological perspective seeks to investigate cyber aberrations and examines the impact of religiosity, social bonding, and demographic variables on the dependent variable from the perspective of social bonding and social control theories. This article using survey method and questionnaire tool had focused on students of Tehran universities. The sample size selected as 400 cases. The religiosity was measured in three aspects as known as beliefs, rituals and commitments. The overall index has a mean equal to 3.18 which illustrates the medium upward religiosity of university students. (75.1%) of students had a moderate to high level of social bond. The cyber deviation index shows that only 14.2% of students had been involved much or too much with these deviations. These deviations were more common among students of lower grades and younger ages. Religiosity and social bonding have both been inversely correlated with these deviations. Also, regression analysis shows that the theoretical model of this study was able to explain (73.7%) of the changes in cyber deviations. In addition, the results of path analysis show that the variable that had the most direct impact on the dependent variable was the social bond variable.