Internet addiction and its risk factors based on the theory of planned behavior among boy students

Internet use and internet addiction is increasingly considerable among the students and university students. in recent years, a phenomenon known as internet addiction has been proposed.the current study aimed to determine the factors of internet addiction based on the planned behavior theory among boy students of the dormitories of tehran university of medical sciences in 2012. in the descriptive-analytical study that was carried out by cluster sampling on 150 boy students of the dormitories of tehran university of medical sciences. the data collection instrument were manuscript questionnaire including background questions and the questions of planned behavior theory structures (intention, attitude, subjective norms and perceived control behavior) which its reliability and validity were obtained and young’s internet addiction scale questionnaire. the data were analyzed by spss software (version 16) by chi-square test, exact fisher test, anona and correlation coefficient test. the mean and standard deviation of internet addiction were 49.48 ±14.56. 86. 66% of the students had internet addiction behavior (mild, moderate and severe). there were significant relationships between attitudes and internet addiction scores and between perceived behavioral control and internet addiction scores. finally most of the studied students have moderate and severe addiction to internet and appropriate interventions need to be done. these interventions should also be considered to improve the attitude and individual behavior control.