Comparison of Difficulty in Regulating Emotion, Cyberbullying and Nomophobia in Students Addicted to Virtual and Normal Network

In the last few years, the addiction to the virtual network has been increasing in the student population of the country, so that the negative consequences resulting from it, i.e. the prevalence of psychological problems, depression, academic problems, and social isolation, have grown strongly. Based on this, the present study aimed at comparing the difficulty of emotional regulation, cyber violence and nomophobia in students addicted to virtual and normal networks. The method is applied in terms of purpose and causal-comparative in terms of the methodology. The statistical population included all users and non-users of social networks, students of Azad University of Rasht who were studying in the academic year of 1399-1400. The purposeful sampling method was used to determine the sample. The sample size included 210 individuals based on Cochran's formula. However, with possibility of mortality rates, 260 questionnaires were distributed among two groups of 130 students, normal students and those addicted to virtual networks. The respondents answered the 20-item Internet addiction questionnaire (Yang, 1988), the 20-item nomophobia questionnaire (Yıldırım & Koria, 2015) and the 36-item emotion regulation difficulty questionnaire (Gratz & Roemer, 2004). Analysis was done using independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance via SPSS 26. The results of the research showed that there is a significant difference between the difficulty of emotion regulation in students addicted to virtual and normal networks and between nomophobia in students addicted to virtual and normal networks.