Cyberspace Traumas Among Girl Students

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The aim of present study is identification of traumas in cyber space among high school girl students in city of Yazd.The research method used in this study was of descriptive /survey type. The population of the study is consisted of all high school girl students in city of Yazd. Via the random sampling, students were selected. The research instrument is researcher-made questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using analysis of variances (Friedman ranking). The results showed that use of cyberspace in aspects: family, education, adoption, faith and psychological has a negative effect on students, but among devices, mobile has the most traumas and the computer games has the least traumas on the students. Students believed the main mechanisms to reduce of traumas, are strengthen logical and emotional connections in families and replacing suitable opportunities, engaging students in positive activities. In contrast, the most weak mechanisms are using policy – security monitoring  and filtering.

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