Prevalence of Emotional Failure Syndrome in Female Students and Its Relationship with the Use of Virtual Network and Satellite Programs

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of emotional failure syndrome in 12th grade female students and its relationship with the use of virtual networks and satellite programs. In this study, a descriptive research method (causal-comparative) has been used. The statistical population of the study included all 12th grade female students in Meshgin Shahr, The statistical sample of the study included 260 people who were selected using multi-stage random sampling. To collect data, Dehghani's Emotional Failure Syndrome Questionnaire (2010) was used. The analyze data by used Fisher's tests showed that emotional failure syndrome among students who use both of virtual networks and satellite programs equal to 67.92% and it is in students who they do not use of virtual networks and satellite programs equal to 17.02 percent and multivariate analyze showed it is significant (p <0.05).Also, the prevalence of emotional failure syndrome is higher among students who use of virtual networks than those who use satellite programs (p <0.05). The incompatibility of the cultural values governing the content of satellite programs and web space programs with the cultural values governing their society on the one hand and the psychological needs, especially the emotional awakening of girls at this age, causes harm and attitudinal conflicts in the opposite sex, eventually, prevalence of symptoms is followed by emotional failure.