Authors
1 Master of Information Technology, Mehralborz University, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding
2 Ph.D. Student, Department of Industrial Management, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Information technology tools with its attractions play an important role in the lives of people and makes people to interact closely with these tools, which can lead to a social isolation. This study was designed to determine the possible association between the use of these tools and the youth depression level. To this end, after designing research model, considering the available 390 IT tools such as mobile, social networking sites and computer games, youth users were selected randomly to complete the designed questionnaire and for the purpose of data analysis Partial Least Square (PLS) method was used. The results showed that there is a positive relationship between the use of computer games and depression. However, no significant association was found between the use of mobile phone and depression and also the relationship between the use of social networks and depression level was found to be negative.
Keywords
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