Predicting Social Well-Being Based on Parenting Styles and Internet Addiction in Students

Abstract

Purpose: The current research aimed to predict social well-being based on parenting styles and internet addiction in students. Method: The research was of correlational type, and the statistical population of the present study included all high school students in Tehran in the academic year 2022-2023. The sample size was determined to be 150 using the Tabachnik and Fidell formula (2007). The data collection instruments in this study included the Young Parenting Inventory (1999), the Internet Addiction Test by Young (1982), and the Social Well-Being Scale by Keyes (1998). The research hypotheses were examined using multiple regression analysis. Findings: The findings indicate that based on the coefficient of determination (R2), it can be said that the predictor variables can explain 59% of the variance of students' social well-being, and among the predictor variables, parenting styles of emotional deprivation, emotional inhibition (p <0.01), abandonment and mistrust (p <0.05), as well as internet addiction (p <0.01) entered the regression equation of social well-being in students with negative coefficients and beta coefficients of 0.226, 0.204, 0.166, 0.164, and 0.381. Conclusion: The use of parenting styles of emotional deprivation, emotional inhibition, abandonment, and mistrust by parents, as well as internet addiction by students, will have a negative impact on their social well-being.