The relationship between internet dependency with

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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 00 (2011) 000–000 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 30 (2011) 272 – 277

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The relationship between internet dependency with sensation seeking and personality Soudeh Rahmani a *, Masoud Gholamali Lavasani b a

MSc of educational psychology, University of Tehran, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Tehran, 1937814653, Iran b Associate professor, University of Tehran, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Tehran, P.O. Box 11455/6456, Iran

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Abstract The purpose of present study was to predict internet dependency by sensation seeking, big five personality factors and gender. Hence, sample of 179 undergraduate students (109 female and 70 male) were selected from University of Tehran using cluster sampling. The instruments consisted of the IAT, SSS-V and NEO-PI-R. Results revealed a positive significant relation (P

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