Modeling the state of social laziness in the period before and after the outbreak of Corona virus in terms of social dilemma among users of the social network Instagram

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1 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Accounting, Masjed Soliman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Masjed Soliman, Iran
3 PhD in Sociology and researcher in the field of addiction at the Anti-Drugs Headquarters
10.22034/scm.2025.387790.1592
Abstract
The aim of this study is to model the state of social laziness in the period before and after the outbreak of Corona virus in terms of social dilemma among users of the social network Instagram. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of implementation method. The data collection tool is a researcher-made electronic questionnaire. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, the construct validity index was used for structural factor analysis. The statistical population of active users in the social network Instagram, in a statistical sample (third order), 388 people with an age criterion of 18-50 years was used in a targeted manner. To analyze the data, tests such as logistic regression, diagnostic analysis, variance and multivariate covariance and structural equation analysis were used using SPSS-24 and PLS-SAMART-3 software. Findings indicate that the social laziness variable has the highest correlation with the social laziness variable after corona outbreak. Also, path coefficients and total effects indicate the linear causal relationship, intensity and direction of this relationship with the social dilemma variable. Analysis of variance and multivariate covariance also showed that the effects of environmental, cultural, natural and cyber factors of social laziness before and after the outbreak of coronavirus on social variables were different. The state of social laziness showed that the most significant difference between the scores of social dichotomy and social laziness is after the outbreak of coronavirus and the correlation between the dimensions of social laziness in all dimensions of personality,

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