The discriminational role family communication patterns and dark triad personality in mobile phone addiction of students

The purpose of this study was to discriminational role family communication patterns and dark triad personality in mobile phone addiction. The research design was a two-group diagnostic function. The statistical population consists of all the female students of high school Tehran city in year academic 20182019. For that 30 female students with mobile phone addiction and without 30 mobile phone addiction were picked through convenience sampling and Revised Family Communication Patterns of Ritchie & Fitzpatrick (1990), Dark Triad Dirty Dozen of Jonson & Webster (2010) and Mobile Phone Addiction Questionnaire of Savari (2014) were administered to them and were analyzed using discriminant analysis. The results of the discriminant analysis showed that family communication patterns and dark triad personality female students can help to prediction mobile phone addiction. The function discriminant analysis assigned 90/1 percent of the female students with and without of mobile phone addiction. The findings clarified the importance of these variables in distinguishing female students with and without mobile phone addiction; hence these factors can be used in prevention of mobile phone addiction by counselors and psychologists .