A Study on Mental Health, Lifestyle and Religious Identity among Active and Common Social Networking Users  (Case: Students at Faculty of Law and Political Science and Communication Science of Allameh Tabataba'i University)

Ghalami, Zahra; Shoa, Asghar

doi:10.22082/cr.2019.100312.1748

Document Type : Social Network

Authors

Zahra Ghalami ¹
Asghar Shoa ²

¹ Educational Psychology

² Psychology

https://doi.org/10.22082/cr.2019.100312.1748

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to study mental health, lifestyle and religious identity among active and common social networking users. The statistical population was all students at two faculties of law and political science, and communication science at Allameh Tabataba'i university. A total of 321 students were selected through simple random sampling. The Keyes mental health questionnaire (2002), miller and smith lifestyle questionnaire (2001) and Khoushavi religious identity questionnaire (2011) were used to collect data in this study. The results of independent t-test and multivariate analysis of variance showed that the level of mental health (p=‌0.0001), lifestyle level (p=‌0.0001) and religious identity (p=‌0.0001) of common users are significantly higher than the active users. In fact, common users have more mental health, better lifestyle and more coherent religious identity.

Keywords

20.1001.1.25382977.1397.25.96.5.8

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A Study on Mental Health, Lifestyle and Religious Identity among Active and Common Social Networking Users (Case: Students at Faculty of Law and Political Science and Communication Science of Allameh Tabataba'i University)

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Volume 25, Issue 96 - Serial Number 96March 2019Pages 135-160

Volume 25, Issue 96 - Serial Number 96
March 2019
Pages 135-160