Structural Modeling of Internet Addiction Based on Maladaptive Personality Traits and Alexithymia among College Students: the Mediating Role of Loneliness

Internet Addiction and its consequences is a Serious and influential issue of Modern human life. The present study aimed to investigate structural modeling of internet addiction based on maladaptive personality traits and alexithymia among college students, by mediating role of loneliness. A total of 800 undergraduate college students from different universities of Tehran participated in this study regarding to inclusion criteria and using randomized multistage clustered sampling. they were assessed in 2018-2019 with demographic questionnaire, Young internet addiction test (young, 1998), Toronto Alexithymia scale (TAS-20) (Bagby, Taylor, & Parker, 1994), The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5-BF) (kruger, 2012) and The Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA) (Russell, Peplau & Cutrona, 1980). Results of The study showed adequate goodness-of-fit for the proposed structural Equation model. Moreover, the indirect and indirect effects of research variables on internet addiction investigate. Our finding may contains considerable implication for internet addiction based on maladaptive personality traits, alexithymia and loneliness.