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Background & Objective: Divorce is a legal action taken by married people to end their marriage. After this, a couple decides to stop living together as husband and wife. Globally, divorce rates more than doubled from 1970 to 2008, increasing from 2.6 to 5.5 divorces per 1,000 married people. One of the important variables in the life of today's couples is dependence on virtual space. With the increasing development of electronic communication technologies such as satellite and internet networks and their impact on many social, cultural, political and economic aspects, society has undergone fundamental changes. Obviously, computer addiction creates a series of emotional states that negatively affect thinking and the rational and emotional brain cannot cope with them. Nowadays, divorce has gained a lot of speed in different societies and it causes a lot of effects on the society, the individual and their children. Therefore, a comprehensive investigation of the factors involved in the occurrence and tendency of people to divorce should be investigated. On the other hand, today, the tendency towards cyber space and marital infidelity in this space has involved many families in many problems. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between dependence on cyberspace and the tendency to commit marital infidelity in divorce applicants.
Methods: This study was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this research included all married people applying for divorce who referred to counseling and psychological centers in Sirjan city in 1402. The sample size was estimated to be 132 people based on Chrissy Morgan's table. Sampling method was based on available method. The scores of the dependence variable on cyber space were measured by the cyber space dependence questionnaire (Khaje Ahmadi et al., 1995) and the variable of tendency to infidelity was measured by the marital infidelity questionnaire (Whatley, 2008). Data analysis was done using Pearson's correlation coefficient test. The significance level of the tests was 0.05.
Results: Data analysis showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between dependence on cyberspace and the tendency to commit marital infidelity in divorce applicants (P<0.001).
Conclusion: To explain the results of this research, it can be said that the research evidence shows that the extreme use of social media can lead to dependence or addictive use of them and even the occurrence of mental and social disorders or problems in school, workplace and in personal life. Some of these disorders and characteristics of addiction to social media can be very problematic and have a significant negative impact on the level of people's communication, especially in their married life. Cyberspace addiction leads to experiencing classical addiction symptoms, i.e. mood disturbance (i.e. engaging in cyberspace leads to favorable changes in emotional states), arousal (i.e., behavioral, cognitive, and emotional preoccupation). ), tolerance (i.e., increasing use of cyberspace over time), withdrawal symptoms (i.e., experiencing unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms when cyberspace use is limited or stopped), conflict (i.e., interpersonal and intrapersonal problems Psychosis is caused by the use of virtual space) and relapse (that is, addicts quickly return to excessive use of virtual space after a period of abstinence) and reduces the ability of the person to communicate with the outside environment and This can lead to emotional dissatisfaction in his life partners. The results of the present study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between dependence on cyberspace and the tendency to commit marital infidelity in divorce applicants. In other words, the greater the dependence on cyberspace, the greater the tendency to marital infidelity among divorce applicants. Therefore, it is recommended that in order to reduce the tendency to marital infidelity, the dependency on cyberspace in divorce applicants should be reduced.
Methods: This study was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this research included all married people applying for divorce who referred to counseling and psychological centers in Sirjan city in 1402. The sample size was estimated to be 132 people based on Chrissy Morgan's table. Sampling method was based on available method. The scores of the dependence variable on cyber space were measured by the cyber space dependence questionnaire (Khaje Ahmadi et al., 1995) and the variable of tendency to infidelity was measured by the marital infidelity questionnaire (Whatley, 2008). Data analysis was done using Pearson's correlation coefficient test. The significance level of the tests was 0.05.
Results: Data analysis showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between dependence on cyberspace and the tendency to commit marital infidelity in divorce applicants (P<0.001).
Conclusion: To explain the results of this research, it can be said that the research evidence shows that the extreme use of social media can lead to dependence or addictive use of them and even the occurrence of mental and social disorders or problems in school, workplace and in personal life. Some of these disorders and characteristics of addiction to social media can be very problematic and have a significant negative impact on the level of people's communication, especially in their married life. Cyberspace addiction leads to experiencing classical addiction symptoms, i.e. mood disturbance (i.e. engaging in cyberspace leads to favorable changes in emotional states), arousal (i.e., behavioral, cognitive, and emotional preoccupation). ), tolerance (i.e., increasing use of cyberspace over time), withdrawal symptoms (i.e., experiencing unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms when cyberspace use is limited or stopped), conflict (i.e., interpersonal and intrapersonal problems Psychosis is caused by the use of virtual space) and relapse (that is, addicts quickly return to excessive use of virtual space after a period of abstinence) and reduces the ability of the person to communicate with the outside environment and This can lead to emotional dissatisfaction in his life partners. The results of the present study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between dependence on cyberspace and the tendency to commit marital infidelity in divorce applicants. In other words, the greater the dependence on cyberspace, the greater the tendency to marital infidelity among divorce applicants. Therefore, it is recommended that in order to reduce the tendency to marital infidelity, the dependency on cyberspace in divorce applicants should be reduced.
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