Ghazal Zandkarimi; kowsar dehdast; Zahra Karbalaee Shalbaf
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The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a program for educating adolescents in cyberspace. The present study is a qualitative theory grounded and the research data were obtained using semi-structured and in-depth interviews with parents of Tehran’s Area 13 who met the entry criteria. ...
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The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a program for educating adolescents in cyberspace. The present study is a qualitative theory grounded and the research data were obtained using semi-structured and in-depth interviews with parents of Tehran’s Area 13 who met the entry criteria. The study measure was in-depth interview and sampling was continued until complete saturation. Data were coded at three levels. Regarding to the theoretical code of cyberspace psychopathology, the central codes of mental, social, physical, functional and educational pathologies along with 22 open codes were extracted and in relation to the theoretical code of coping strategies for dealing with cyberspace injuries, Parental awareness, legislation and effective interaction with adolescents were extracted with 32 open codes. Open, conceptual, and theoretical codes based on the Strauss-Korbin model were validated by counselings and psychologists with validation by constructive and internal method of evaluations. Then, a conceptual model of two-way interaction of psychopathologies and coping strategies to deal with cyberspace were designed. Finally, based on the conceptual model, a program for educating adolescents in cyberspace was developed. According to the obtained model, the pathologies and strategies of dealing with cyberspace interact with each other and have a two-way relationships. Therefore, the six-stage program of parenting education in cyberspace is able to suggest effective strategies in the field of parenting with regard to the harms of cyberspace for parents.
mohadeseh Moslehi; Ebrahim Naeimi; mahdi vahedi
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Physical, psychological and environmental disorders that people experience in old age facilitate the elderly's tendency to cyberspace and social networks. The purpose of this study is to analyze the mental health in cyberspace elderly users. The method of the present study is qualitative based on the ...
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Physical, psychological and environmental disorders that people experience in old age facilitate the elderly's tendency to cyberspace and social networks. The purpose of this study is to analyze the mental health in cyberspace elderly users. The method of the present study is qualitative based on the Phenomenology. The population of the study included all men and women over 65 years from Tehran. Sampling method was purposive & chain sampling in which 6 elderly women and men were selected in order to participate in the study and interviewed as well as analyzed. All interviews were recorded and finally analyzed using Strauss and Corbin's systematic analysis method (1990). They took refuge in cyberspace to escape from these afflictions. Twelve semi-structured interviews were conducted. The analysis of the interviewees' statements resulted in identifying 19 open codes and five central codes (loneliness perception, elderly absurdity, unrealistic attitudes, wandering in life, and excitement immersion). These findings indicate the prevalence of a range of psychological disorders in the elderly, which revealed the need to pay attention to this dimension as well as the design of educational and treatment programs to reduce these disorders. The statements of the interviewees also indicated the fact that cyberspace and drowning in it were not the cause of these discomforts, but the group took refuge in cyberspace to escape from these discomforts.
