Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 MA in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Bandargaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandargaz, Iran
2 Assistance Professor, Department of Psychology, Bandargaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandargaz, Iran
3 PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between behavioral brain systems and emotional cognitive regulation with dependence on social networks in students. The research method is descriptive-correlation based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population included high school students. To determine the sample size according to the number of observed variables (17 variables) and assigning a coefficient of 15 for each observed variable, 261 people were selected by available sampling method and responded to Carver & White’s Brain / Behavioral Systems Questionnaire (1994), Granofsky et al. Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2001), and Khajeh Ahmadi et al Social Network Dependency Questionnaire (2015). Data analysis was performed using structural equation method using SPSS 18 and Amos 24 software. Findings showed that behavioral activation system with social network dependence has a positive and significant relationship, and behavioral inhibition system with social network dependence has a negative and significant relationship, and negative emotional cognitive regulation with social network dependence has a positive and significant relationship and positive emotional cognitive regulation with dependence. It has a negative and significant relationship with social networks. Emotional cognitive regulation also mediates the relationship between behavioral brain systems and dependence on social networks. The research model was also confirmed and in general 75% of the variance of dependence on social networks can be explained by behavioral brain systems and emotional cognitive regulation.
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