Effectiveness of quality-of-life therapeutic intervention on sensation seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers in adolescents with Internet addiction

Internet addiction is a behavioral addiction in which a person becomes dependent on using the Internet or other online devices as an incompatible way to deal with life stressors, which has many consequences for the person. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of quality-of-life therapy on sensation seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers in adolescents with Internet addiction.

Methods and Materials: 

The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and follow-up with the control group. 30 teenagers with Internet addiction in Isfahan city in a targeted way according to the entrance criteria among teenagers who had Internet addiction; They were selected and randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The intervention experimental group received quality of life therapy. And the control group did not receive any treatment. The questionnaires includedKimberly -Young's Internet Addiction (1998),  Zuckerman's sensation seeking (1978), Zadeh Mohammadi's risky behaviors (2008) and relationships with peers by Razaghi et al. (2016). The data were analyzed through analysis of variance with repeated measures.

The findings showed that the therapeutic quality of life intervention had a significant effect on emotional seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers of the experimental group in the post-test and follow-up phase (P<0.001).

It can be said that the Therapeutic quality of life intervention intervention by using the principles and techniques of changing the conditions by changing the Therapeutic quality of life intervention can be used as an intervention to improve emotional seeking, risky behaviors and relationships with peers.