The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in improving the quality of life of female university students addicted to the Internet. A pilot study on a sample of female students at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah Al-Mukarramah.

The study aimed to design and test a professional intervention program based on cognitive behavioral therapy to reduce the severity of the risk of Internet addiction to improve the quality of life and to test the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy through the following sub-indicators: improving the quality of general health, improving the quality of academic life, and improving the quality of psychological life. The study relied on the experimental approach, using a single-group experimental design, where pre- and post-measurement of the experimental group was conducted after applying the professional intervention program using the Internet Addiction Scale for female university students, and the Quality of Life Scale for female university students as study tools prepared by the researcher. The study sample consisted of (15) individuals from female university students with one experimental group. The results of the study showed the effectiveness of a professional intervention program based on cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing the severity of the risk of Internet addiction to improve the quality of life. The study proved the validity of its hypotheses, as it showed that there are statistically significant differences between the average ranks of the scores of the experimental group cases in the pre- and post-measurements on the university student’s quality of life scale in favor of the post-measurement. There are also no statistically significant differences between the average ranks of the scores of the experimental group cases in the post- and post-measurements on the university student’s quality of life scale.