The comparison of depression, social loneliness and family relation between high school girl student (Internet users and nonusers) in Tehran

Many researches, educational experts and social critics have been discussing that internet is changing the life of the people but are debating on positive and negative aspects. The goal of this research was to study this impact of internet on depression, social loneliness and family relation of female high school students in Tehran. The family relation questionnaire, children depression Inventory (CDI) and UCLA Loneliness Scale have been used to obtain the data. The research was done in two stages. The 227 subjects were selected on the base of cluster random sampling (115 internet users, 112 non internet users). The results of" t" showed that there were no significant difference in three variables between two groups .For the second stage according to the obtained data , 25 users(average 10 hours or more), and 25 non users were selected. The finding showed that there were significant differences between two groups in all three ariables .