Design and Test of Causal Model for Relation between Internet Addiction and Emotional Self-Regulation, Rejection Sensitivity and Online Self-Disclosure with Mediation of Social Anxiety in Students

This study aims to provide causal model for relation of Internet addiction with emotional self-regulation, rejection sensitivity and online self-disclosure with mediation of social anxietyin Students.
All students of Mohaghegh Ardabili University studying in 2015-2016 were selected as sample group. The participants responded to the questionnaires of social anxiety, addiction to the Internet, online self-disclosure, rejection sensitivity, and emotional self-regulation.
The results showed that the proposed model was not appropriate in some model fitting parameters and it needed some modifications. As a result, the final data model fitting with the root of mean square error approximately 0.05 was confirmed by eliminating insignificant path of direct effect of rejection sensitivity on Internet addiction.
According to the results, the variables including emotional self-regulation, rejection sensitivity and online self-disclosure through social anxiety had an indirect and significant effect on Internet addiction. So, this model can play an important role in reducing Internet addiction so that 53% of the Internet addiction variance is explained by the variables considered in this model.