چکیده:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on social network dependency among adolescents. This study is an applied study in terms of its objectives and employed an experimental design with a pre-test, post-test, and the control group. The research population consisted of all male senior high school students in the Education Department of District 2 in Shiraz. Using the availability sampling, 30 students who were members of social networks were randomly assigned to two groups (one experimental and one control group, each with 15 students). The data were collected through the Social Network Dependency Scale (Moghimi & Latifi, 2015) and motivational interviews with the participants. The collected data were analyzed using the repeated measurement test and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA). The results of the study showed that motivational interviewing had a positive and significant effect on students' social network dependency, and this effect also persisted in the follow-up phase. The results of covariance analysis also suggested that motivational interviewing had a positive effect on the dimensions of social network dependency. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that motivational interviewing can reduce the social network dependency of high school students.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The results of the study showed that motivational interviewing had a positive and significant effect on students' social network dependency, and this effect also persisted in the follow-up phase.
The results of covariance analysis also suggested that motivational interviewing had a positive effect on the dimensions of social network dependency.
Based on these findings, it can be concluded that motivational interviewing can reduce the social network dependency of high school students.
Motivational interviewing also enables the transfer of information to facilitate decision-making, enhances self-efficacy, emphasizes a sense of autonomy and freedom of action, and enhances the effectiveness of counseling services (DiMarco, Klein, Clark, & Wilson, 2009; Webber & Tate, 2008).
(2018) studied the effects of a group activity-based motivational enhancement therapy program (GA-MET) on social media addictive behaviors among junior high school students in Thailand.
Table 1: The participants’ scores on the pre-, post-, and follow-up tests Variable Group Experimental Control {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Hypothesis 1: Motivational interviewing reduces social network dependency among students.
Table 8: Univariate covariance analysis test to determine the effectiveness of motivational interviewing on social network dependency dimensions {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} As it is shown, the results of the post-test indicated that the difference for the individual dimension were significant between the groups (F = 90.
17, df = 1, P 1, P Discussion and conclusion The results of this study showed that motivational interviewing had a positive effect on students' social network dependency and this effect continued in the follow-up phase.