Comparing the psychological characteristics of high school students involved in cyberspace and ordinary student’s

The present study aims to compare the psychological characteristics of high school students involved in cyberspace and ordinary student’s. The statistical population of this study included all students of high school schools in Poldokhtar city in 2017-2018, which was about 3990. According to Krejcy and Morgan's table, 350 people (175 girls and 175 boys) were selected as samples based on multi-stage sampling method. McFarlane's love of learning questionnaire (2003), Oxford Happiness (1989), Rosenberg's self-esteem, shearer and carver Life Orientation (1995), Herman's achievement Motivation (1970), and Self-Regulatory Skills of Buffard et al (1995) was used. Data were analyzed using SPSS21 software. Data analysis showed that students involved in cyberspace, significantly, have less love of learning, happiness, academic achievement motivation and poorer academic performance, lower self-esteem and at last, their life orientation were more pessimistic, but there is no significant difference between two groups in the use of self-regulatory skills. The findings of this study suggest that the drowning of students in cyberspace from various aspects can lead to harm to them as learners of knowledge, which this damage can at first, be emotional and it will attack the love of learning, happiness, self-esteem and positive life orientation in adolescents. In the next, it can lead to academic failure and an inappropriate academic performance.