Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• motahare Govashiryani ¹
• afsaneh mozaffari ²
• Seyed ALi Rahmanzadeh ³
• Ali Akbar Farhangi ⁴
• noroz hashemizehi ⁵

¹ Olom tahghighat

² Faculty of Humanities، Islamic Azad University، Science and Research Branch ،Tehran، Iran(Responsible Correspondent)

³ Assistant professor,Department of social communication sciences,Islamic Azad university,East Tehran Branch,Iran

⁴ Olom Tahghighat university

⁵ Azad university

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to meta-analyze the research conducted on the relationship between virtual social networks and quality of life, in order to estimate the size of the effect of virtual social networks on quality of life. The statistical population of the research was made up of all the researches conducted until the end of 1402 in the field of the subject under study. Through targeted sampling, 11 studies that had suitable characteristics were selected for meta-analysis. In order to analyze the collected data, the second edition of the comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA) software was used, and due to the heterogeneity between the studies, the random effects model was used to combine the results and reach the effect size. The estimated effect size in the research samples is -0.210, which according to Cohen''''s interpretation system is in the medium confidence range. Due to the heterogeneity of the studies, the year variable was chosen as a moderating variable, the results of which showed that the negative effect of virtual social networks on the quality of life increases with the passing of time.

Keywords

• Social networks
• quality of life
• meta-analysis
• effect size

Main Subjects

• communication