Emotional Deprivation in Connection to Some University of Baghdad Students as Facebook Users

    Emotional Deprivation manifested in some of the students of the University of Baghdad as Facebook users is one of the recent rising issues due to rapid technological advances which motivated the youths to use Facebook for easy and immediate access and communication which help fill in the emotional emptiness due to lack of love, tenderness, or compassion. This emotional deprivation is formed since early childhood due to loss of one of or both parents, due to broken family ties which rest on many factors and reasons. This motivated the researcher to explore emotional deprivation found in a sample of university students who frequently use Facebook, applying certain format to a sample of (150) female and male students, consulting precedent critical sources; following a theoretical approach supported by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).

   The research paper detects that there is no apparent difference between female and males as far as emotional deprivation is concerned, since both use Facebook excessively to compensate for their emotional needs, and sometimes to escape their bitter reality, which is discordant and painful. Logging to their virtual reality in search for love and compassion lost at home but found in friends and acquaintances. The researcher endeavoured to define the time span and limit spent by females or males in search for emotional understanding and compassion. Males were found to spend longer a time using Facebook in search for compassion; they are indulged in multi-relationships which forms a great danger on the individuals themselves, because it leads them to psychological, mental, and emotional problems which are reflected not only on the individual’s life, but on his society as well.