Role of perceived family resilience and emotion regulation in prediction of internet addiction of students

The aim of current research was to investigate the Role of Perceived Family Resilience and Emotion Regulation in Prediction of Internet Addiction of Students. The research method is correlation. The statistical population of this study consisted of high school students in Parsabad city in the academic year of 2016-2017that among them 250 students were selected as sample through a Random cluster sampling method. The tools used in this study were three standard questionnaires of family resiliency, emotion regulation and internet addiction. The collected data were analyzed using version 21 of the spss software. The findings of this study showed that there is negative and significant relations between family resilience(and its dimensions) and emotion regulation with internet addiction (P<0.01).Also regression analysis showed that the predictor variables could significantly predict 27 percent of variance of internet addiction among students (P<0.01). The findings of this study highlight the importance of Perceived Family Resilience and emotion regulation as important family and individual skills in explaining Internet addiction as one of addictive behaviors in students.