جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "virtual environment" در نشریات گروه "روانشناسی"

This study was aimed to identify the effect of the consequences of virtual environment on the lifestyle of couples in Shiraz.

This is a qualitative phenomenological research and the study sample included the couples in Shiraz that referred to counseling centers. In this research, the samples reached saturation stage with 11 couples. The tools used in this study included a semi-structured interview with open-ended questions. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed by using the analytical model of Streubert and Carpenter (2003).

The damages resulting from the virtual environment to couples' relationships included two main codes: dysfunctional interpersonal patterns and dysfunctional intrapersonal patterns. The main code of dysfunctional interpersonal patterns includes sub-themes of marital problems, extramarital affairs, intimacy reduction, communication problems, and inability to manage conflict resolution. And the main code of dysfunctional interpersonal patterns also includes sub-themes of Internet addiction, inability to control emotions, lifestyle, and uncertainty of values.

The results showed that excessive use of the virtual environment by each couple leads to marital lifestyle, sexual problems, extramarital affairs, reduced intimacy, communication problems, and reduced conflict resolution management.

Reducing loneliness is one of the essential requirements in making interpersonal relations, and an important unconscious motivation in explaining social behavior. Today, many relationships are established in virtual space as a new communication possibilities and as a kind of interpersonal interactions. This study intends to investigate the relation between loneliness and virtual relationships among blogers who are university students and none- students users. For this purpose, 595 users (278 f & 317 m) were selected according to convernience and their loneliness level was measured by UCLA Loneliness Scale. At the end, two groups of students and no-students blog users were compared based on their loneliness scores. All collected data were analyzed through regression technique. Final results showed that allocation of time and purposes of blog using for students, and allocation of time and length of loneliness for non-students group were significant variables in predicting loneliness level. The gender, however, was not a significant variable in the two groups. Findings indicate significant relationship between time spending of blog users and loneliness level. This can suggest emotional and social vulnerability of blog users. It demands more experts’ attention and protective planning in order to decrease risk factors of bloggers’ lonliness