Comparison of cognitive emotion regulation and resiliency in students addicted to the internet and normal students

Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine cognitive emotion regulation and resiliency amount in female students addicted to the Internet and normal students.
The research method was descriptive causal-comparative and the statistic population of the study concluded of all second high school female students of Kashan city in the first semester of the 2015-2016 academic year with the quantity of 3402 subject. From among 20 schools, 5 schools, named Narges, Khadijeh Kobra, Fatemeh Zahra, Shahed and Amiralmomenin were selected with simple random sampling. Then 50 addicted to the internet and 50 normal student based on the offer of VanVoorhis & Morgan (2007) and score of Young Internet Addiction Test (1998) and also screen were selected. The study tools were Cognitive Emotion Regulation by Garnefski, Kraaij & Spinhoven (2001), Connor-Davidson Resiliency Scale (2003) & Young internet addiction test (1998). After deletion of 10 distorted questionnaires and 2 outlier, data were analyzed using multivariable analysis of variance and t-test.
The findings showed that the difference between the two groups of addicted female to the Internet and normal in acceptance (F= 4.378, P= 0.039), positive refocusing (F= 7.311, P= 0.008), positive reappraisal (F= 15.294, P= 0.001), putting into perspective (F= 7.783, P= 0.006), self-blame (F= 13.021, P= 0.001), rumination (F= 8.019, P= 0.006), other-blame (F= 11.635, P= 0.001) and resiliency (t= 6.912, P= 0.001) is significant.
It is suggested that parents and educators by training cognitive skills, emotion regulation and resiliency of during childhood prevent the possible harm such as internet addiction in adolescence and adulthood.