Investigating the Role of Virtual Social Networks in Social Interactions of Spouses (Case Study: Young Wives in Tehran)

The virtual social networks are new generation of social relationship environment. Although they are not old established, they could make space in people’s lives. These networks have some advantages beside their drawbacks in which the most important are undermining the family foundation, emotional divorce, fainting of spouse cordiality. Considering the importance of virtual social networks & social interactions of spouses, this research is to examine the relationship between virtual social networks and social interactions of spouses as the main objective using field study, survey research, and the questionnaire tool as well as SPSS and Smart PLS software. The population of this study is Tehrani spouses in which 600 were chosen as sample size.
The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between virtual social networks (P= 0.34) and social interactions and its dimensions, that is spouse's commitment (P= -0.726), spouse's satisfaction (-0.565), spouses trust (-0.590), spouse's indifference (P= 0.157), spouse's solidarity (-0.272), spouse's adaptability (-0.571), spouse's democratic relationship (-0.565), strict and tough relationship (0.243) and social compromise between spouses (-0.213). Thus, all hypotheses of the study are confirmed. Also, the results of structural equation (Smart PLS) showed that social network variable totally explains (-0.60) of the variance of social interaction variable. Considering the related values ​​of index the determination coefficient of this value is estimated moderately (0.36).