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:: Volume 34, Issue 4 (winter 2024) ::
MEDICAL SCIENCES 2024, 34(4): 450-455 Back to browse issues page
Prediction of body dysmorphic based on internet addiction and loneliness among medical students in West Mazandaran
Fatemeh Rahimi1 , Flora Rahimaghaee2
1- Master Student in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
2- Associate Professor, Nursing Department, Medical Science Faculty, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran , frahimaghaee@gmail.com
Abstract:   (363 Views)
Background: Considering the tendency of the new generation, especially students, to use virtual spaces, it seems that the internet can be considered as a medium of influence in academic and personal life. The aim of the study was to predict body dysmorphic based on internet addiction and loneliness in medical students.
Materials and methods: The type of present study was descriptive-correlation. 190 medical students from west of Mazandaran were included in the study by stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using Kimberly Young's Internet Addiction Questionnaire, Rabiei et al.'s body dysmorphic Questionnaire, and Russell's Loneliness Questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation test and stepwise regression were used for analysis.
Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship between internet addiction and feeling lonely with body dysmorphic in West Mazandaran medical students (P<0.01). The results of the regression analysis showed that in the first step, the feeling of loneliness variable alone predicts 44% of the variance of the body dysmorphic variable (P<0.01). In the second step of this analysis, the variable of internet addiction was added as another variable after the variable of loneliness into the prediction equation of students' body dysmorphic, and with the addition of this variable, the predictive power increased to 50% (P<0.01).
Conclusion: the variables of internet addiction and feeling of loneliness are predictors of body dysmorphic in medical students, in such a way that body dysmorphic disorder increases with more feeling of loneliness and higher dependence on the internet.
 
Keywords: Body dysmorphic, Internet addiction, Loneliness, Medical students
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Semi-pilot: Survey/Cross Sectional/Descriptive | Subject: psychology
Received: 2023/12/18 | Accepted: 2024/03/13 | Published: 2024/11/30
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Rahimi F, Rahimaghaee F. Prediction of body dysmorphic based on internet addiction and loneliness among medical students in West Mazandaran. MEDICAL SCIENCES 2024; 34 (4) :450-455
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