The Mediating role of academic procrastination in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and the use of virtual social networks in high school students

The aim of present study was to investigate the Mediating role of academic procrastination in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and the use of virtual social networks in high school students on bafgh city. This study was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all 773 female high school students in Bafgh in the academic year 2021-2022, 240 were available online and as a sample of the study. To collect data, the virtual social networks questionnaire of eidizadeh and ahmadi baloutaki (2018), the short form of the young and brown schema questionnaire (2003) and the tuckman academic procrastination questionnaire (2006) were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient tests and path analysis in SPSS-22 and AMOS 24 software. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between all components of early maladaptive schemas and academic procrastination with the use of virtual social networks. And the results of path analysis also showed that the model fit well with corrections and academic procrastination plays a mediating role in the relationship between Cuts and rejections, other orientation, excessive ringing and inhibition and restricted restrictions with the use of The subjects had virtual social networks. According to the obtained findings, it can be said that early maladaptive schemas and academic procrastination play an important role in the use of students' virtual social networks; therefore, with appropriate training, early maladaptive schemas and procrastination in students should be reduced to have positive consequences on the proper use of students' virtual social networks.