A Study of the Relationship between Personality Traits and Internet Addiction among Secondary School Male Students in Torbat Heydarieh

Abstract

The present descriptive-correlational study examines the relationship between personality traits and the
tendency for internet addiction. The research population includes all the secondary school male students
at the city of Torbat Heydarieh. The research sampling was first done by a one-step clustering method in a
secondary high school and then the subjects were randomly selected from among these students. The data
collection tools included two questionnaires: The NEO Personality Characteristics Questionnaire, which
is one of the most recent questionnaires on the assessment of personality building based on factor
analysis, 2. Young Drug Addiction Test, one of the most authoritative tests for online addiction testing,
which was developed by Dr. Kimberly Young. The results of this study indicate that the F-value and its
significance – lower than 0.05 – the fitted model has a 95% confidence. Moreover, the coefficient of
determination shows that personality traits determine 85% of the variations of the variable of internet
addiction.