Background & Aims: Behavioral dependence on the Internet, regardless of whether it is a mental or social problem, is a chronic and recurrent phenomenon associated with serious physical, financial, family, social and psychological injuries, and in this regard factors examples psychological, cognitive, family and social factors are involved. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to compare impulsivity and interpersonal sensitivity among students with Internet addiction and normal students
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Materials & Methods: The research method was descriptive-comparative and the statistical population included all males secondary school of Gorgan, of them selected 20 student with higher scored average in Internet addiction inventory and 20 normal students. They responded to Barat's impulsive questionnaire (1959) and the interpersonal sensitivity scale of Bias and Parker (1989).
Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the impulsivity and interpersonal sensitivity of students with Internet addiction and normal students
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Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that interpersonal impulsivity and interpersonal sensitivity in adolescents with Internet addiction are more than those with normal adolescents
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General Received: 2019/10/14 | Accepted: 2019/10/14 | Published: 2019/10/14