The relationship between adolescents' emotional and parental controls on mobile use in Tehran

 
Today, mobile phone as one of manifestations of new communication technology plays an important role in human individual and social life and it is included an inseparable part in their daily relations so that we can claim that life is impossible without it for many of people or at least it doesn't have any desirability. The influence of mobile phone applications in life different matters, is a universal phenomenon and in spite of subsiding primary fever of its usage in our society, it is extremely acceptable that the serious and basic disadvantages of this modern technology are kept hidden and invisible. In general, the purpose of this research is studying about family emotional atmosphere and parents' control on the (desirable and undesirable) mobile phone applications. The way of studying in this research is considering (380 individuals) among 12-18 years old teenagers in Tehran. conceptional frameworks of this research is based up on studying views (sociology of social deviance, communications and psychology) and reviewing of empirical resources and main assumptions are propounded in that model. The research results show that the teenagers use short messages rather than calls to communicate during a day. They usually send messages for their friends (with the same sex and also opposite sex) and the contents of these taken and sent messages are usually consist of expressing love and kindness. The results also show that boys use mobile phone undesirably more than girls. And the factors like family emotional atmosphere, parents' control and specific field of application, influence teenagers applications of mobile phone. In fact the family emotional atmosphere and parents' control act as factors to prevent the teenager from applying mobile phone undesirably and to encourage him/her to apply mobile phone desirably.