فاطمه میرزائی

Background and purpose: In today's era, with extensive changes in the type of social communication and the formation of virtual social networks, the Internet and various smartphone applications, people in these networks find the possibility to freely introduce others and communicate; The expansion of the use of this phenomenon has had many positive and negative consequences in life. One of these negative consequences is the occurrence of marital incompatibility, and this research aims to investigate the role of mobile phone social networks in the level of marital compatibility of users.

Materials and methods: The research design is descriptive and survey (non-experimental) and the research method is causal-comparative. The statistical population of the present study includes all men and women users of mobile phone social spaces. The sampling method was quota sampling and ۳۰۰ people were selected to complete the questionnaires (۱۵۰ people without problems with their spouses and ۱۵۰ people with serious problems with their spouses who have filed for divorce). The questions of the Spanier Marital Compatibility Questionnaire (DAS) and the Questionnaire of Positive and Negative Effects of Social Networks were implemented and the results of the tests were analyzed using   -۲۲ software and descriptive and inferential statistical methods and correlation coefficient and explanatory coefficient tests to investigate the research questions.

Results: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the positive and negative effects of virtual networks and marital compatibility (p<۰.۰۵). In the investigation of the relationship between age and the duration of using the virtual space of the mobile phone with the degree of marital compatibility, the relationship was inverse and significant; But the demographic characteristic of gender had no significant relationship with marital compatibility. In examining the relationship between the components of the positive effects of using virtual networks "the extent of virtual communication with friends and acquaintances in virtual networks and training and acquiring skills in virtual space" and the components of the negative effects of using virtual networks "relationships" Outside of customs and Sharia in virtual networks and "disclosure of private information, images and videos in virtual space", all hypotheses were confirmed and there were significant relationships (p<۰.۰۵).

Conclusion: Although the optimal, controlled and targeted use of virtual space can improve people's physical and mental health, increase awareness and expand social relationships, but excessive, abnormal and inappropriate use of virtual social networks can cause health and mental health disorders. , the loss of privacy, damage in social and family relationships, reduction of real and face-to-face relationships, formation and rapid promotion of rumors and false news, promotion of anti-values ??and intellectual doubts, expansion of unconventional, immoral and immoral communications leads to.

Keywords: mobile social networks, positive and negative effects of virtual networks, addiction to virtual space, marital compatibility.