أساليب المعاملة الوالدية و علاقتها بالإدمان على الإنترنيت لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانوية في محافظة كربلاء المقدسة

الملخص EN

The study of style of parental treatment and its relationship to addiction to the Internet is an important means to identify individual differences among adolescent students and distinguish them in dealing with different situations of life and the interpretation of aspects of their personalities and control.

In the light of this, it is necessary to delineate the styles of parental treatment perceived by secondary school students in the stage of adolescence.

Such a stage requires skills and features to face the challenges of the new age, including facing the negative effects of modern technologies such as the Internet.

The aim of the current research is to identify the styles of parental treatment perceived by secondary school students who are addicted to the Internet, and the relationship between parental treatment styles and the phenomenon of online addiction.

In order to achieve the research objectives, the researcher adopts a scale to measure the styles of parental treatment democratic, authoritarian, negligent, overprotecting and hesitant.

The scale consists of 27 items.

Having checked by the specialists, the scale is modified into 24 items distributed in five styles.

Then, to measure the addiction to the Internet the researcher adopts Kimberly Young 1996, which contains 20 questions to diagnose online addicts.

The researcher applies the two scales to the sample of 134 students from secondary schools selected randomly from 3 schools in the centre of the holy city of Karbala.

After collecting data and processing them statistically by spss, the researcher reaches the following results: 1 – The fluctuant style of parents of secondary school students who are addicted to the Internet is the commonest.

2 - There is a statistically significant relationship between the styles of parental treatment and the adolescents addicted to the Internet.

In the light of the results, the researcher gains a number of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions in the study.