Effect of Emotional Intelligence Training on Reducing Students' Addiction to Virtual Networks

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence training on studentschr('39') addiction to virtual networks. The research was a semi-experimental one with a pretest-posttest design and control group. The research population included all the female high school students of Mashhad in the second semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. Among them, 30 students who scored higher on the addiction to mobile questionnaires were selected by targeted sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups each of which included 15 people. The subjects of the experimental group received the assertiveness emotional intelligence training program during eight 90-min sessions 2 sessions a week. The control group was put on the waiting list. Addiction to mobile questionnaires based on social networks (Khajeh Ahmadi & et al.2016), were used for collecting data. Univariable analysis of covariance was used for data analysis. The results of the analysis of the data showed that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the addiction variables to the virtual networks. The results show that emotional intelligence training can reduce studentschr('39') addiction to virtual networks.