A Study on the Dimensions of Internet Use and the Experienced Feelings of Iranian Users

The main purpose of this research article is to present some various dimensions of internet usage that affect the experienced feelings the internet users. The main axiom of our study is that internet is now a crucial tool for Iranian users, as they collect the bulk of their information from that. However and despite many advantages and usefulness that Internet offers, our explorative study indicated that it has caused a number of socio-pathological problems. This then became the problematic and a research question that encouraged us to launch this study. We selected the statistical population of this research from all Shirazi people whose age was in range of 15 to 35 years old in the city of Shiraz. We then selected a sample of 400 respondents from among them. Collected data was analyzed in two levels using SPSS software; 1- descriptive level; and, 2- inferential level. At the inferential level, we applied One and Multi Variable Logistic Regression. The inferential analysis results indicated that there was a significant relationship between high daily internet usage, news-search usage and experienced feeling. Multivariate regression showed that high and average news-search usage and high usage entered to equation as entertainment dimension.