The relationship between family communication patterns and internet addiction

This research was carried out with the objective of studying the family communication patterns and internet addiction by sample size of 204 BA students (103 females and 101 males) at the faculty of psychology and social sciences at Islamic Azad university, central Tehran branch ,that were selected by multi-stage random sampling. To collect the data, Youngʹs questionnaire of internet addiction (1998) and the revised questionnaire of family communication patterns (Fitzpatrick and Ritchie, 1997) were applied. Statistical methods of Pearsonʹs correlation coefficient, independent T-test, and Fisher’s Z r showed that there is a negative and meaningful relationship between the conversation pattern and internet addiction and there is a positive and meaningful relationship between the conformity pattern and internet addiction. Also, there is a meaningful relationship between the internet addiction in male and female university students and the male students were averagely more addicted to the internet than the female ones. However, there is no significant difference between male and female students’ communication patterns.