مجله علوم روانشناختی (Mar 2019)
Quality of life, family function, and life style of married women users and non-users of social networks
Abstract
Background: although increasing use of Internet and social networks have affected social life and interaction of people, but how quality of life style can be compared among people ? Aims: this study aimed to compare quality of life, family function, and lifestyle of married women users and non-users of social networks. Method: This research was a causal-comparative design and its statistical population consisted of all married women users and non-users of social networks of Islamic Azad University of Rasht in 2016. The study sample included 150 users and 150 non-users of social networks who were selected through convenience sampling according to inclusion criteria. To collect data, the world health organization quality of life questionnaire (1990), Epestin and colleague family performance scale(1982), Lali and colleague questionnaire (2012) were used. Results: The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that there were significant differences between the married women users and non-users of social networks in four components of quality of life, three components of life style, and in all components of family functions, so that the score of social network user group was lower than that of the non-user group (p<0/001). Conclusions: non users married women had better quality of life and family function than other group.
