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Aydin Ilhan – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2024
This study examined the relationship between physical activity, digital game addiction, and academic success among university students. Participants were university 704 students from Turkiye who did physical activity and played digital games. The sample group consisted of 704 university students (342 women and 362 men), selected through random…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Video Games, Addictive Behavior, Academic Achievement
Burcu Karafil; Ahmet Uyar – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
This study explores the relationship between digital addiction and online learning readiness levels of the university students. For this, the predictive correlation research model was used. The sample of the study consisted of 856 university students studying at three different universities in Türkiye. The "Digital Addiction Scale" and…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Computer Use, Foreign Countries, Online Courses
Selami Karuç; Mehmet Mübarek Bora; Mehmet Veysi Bora – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the relationships among attitude towards sport, sport participation motivation, and digital game addiction in adolescents. Accordingly, a relational survey model was employed, and 324 adolescents aged 14-18 were selected using a cluster sampling method. The data collection instruments included the Motivation for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletics, Participation, Addictive Behavior
Mehmet Mübarek Bora; Selami Karuç – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
This study was conducted with the aim of simultaneously describing the patterns among physical activity attitudes, technology addiction, and psychological well-being in high school students and investigating whether these variables differ by gender. Data were collected from a total of 320 participants aged 13-17, located in four different…
Descriptors: Correlation, Physical Activity Level, Student Attitudes, Computer Use
Ezgi Pelin Yildiz; Metin Çengel – International Education Studies, 2024
Social media has often started to be used as the first source for accessing information. Country agenda, general issues, research, new ideas, entertainment, shopping, instant communication and cooperation are the positive contributions of social media. Excessive use of social media in every aspect of life certainly causes harm. It causes serious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Young Adults
Demir, Fatima Betül; Öteles, Ülkü Ulukaya; Koçoglu, Erol – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
The concepts of digital obesity and digital literacy, which are interconnected in influencing human beings, can find their place in all areas of life with the virtualized life industry in the globalizing world. Having these competencies, awareness can be explained by the orientation process between these concepts and the individual. In this…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
Berkan Çelik; Amine Hatun Atas – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2023
Due to the notably increased penetration of smartphone use among university students and the alarming risk it poses to both physical and mental health, this study investigated mobile phone addiction among university students concerning student characteristics, mobile phone usage behaviors, and mobile phone use purposes and situations. The…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Incidence
Erçok Güler, Sinem Can; Cengiz, Recep; Günay, Erkan – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine the feeling of being stuck and phone addiction levels of student participants in Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Sport Sciences. The study group of the research consists of 97 female and 193 male students from Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Sport Sciences. Personal information form prepared by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior
Dere, Zeynep – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
Digitalization is an unavoidable benefits of modern life Digital transformation and change continue to be experienced in every field. Adolescents have accessed many apps, including those related to their academic life, online in the past year. It is vital for the health of adolescents that researchers identify their Internet addictions and come up…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Student Behavior, Internet, Undergraduate Students
Ömer Düzenli; Feray Ugur-Erdogmus; Özgen Korkmaz; Recep Çakir – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2023
This mixed-methods study examines high school students' self-confidence, social media use, and internet addiction. The data were collected from 340 high school students in Samsun during the 2019-2020 academic year. Participants completed self-confidence, internet addiction, and social media use scales, and interviews. Descriptive analyses,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Self Esteem
Sacide G. Mazman Akar; Murat Özer – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
This study explores the influence of digital literacy, parental styles, and background variables on digital game addiction among elementary school students. Given the formative nature of early childhood and the significant role of parental influence, understanding these relationships is essential to promoting healthy digital habits. The sample…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Games, Addictive Behavior, Elementary School Students
Turan, Serhat; Öcal, Tuncay; Cengiz, Ömer – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The aim of the research is to investigate the digital game addiction and social anxiety levels of adolescents who play sports recreationally. 226 adolescents (69 girls, 157 boys) who do sports recreationally participated in the research. In the research, the personal information form prepared by the researcher and the short form of the digital…
Descriptors: Video Games, Addictive Behavior, Anxiety, Adolescents
Recep Öz; Murat Tolga Kayalar; Ayhan Koç – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2023
The study employed a quantitative research design using the general survey model to understand a large research population without intervening in variables. It involved 552 teacher candidates from an education faculty in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, with 142 males and 410 females participating voluntarily. Data were collected using the Computer Game…
Descriptors: Computers, Video Games, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Servet Erkol; Sabit Mentese; Murat Gökalp – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
Addiction is the state of being addicted to any activity, substance, object or behavior in a way that excludes other activities of one's life or causes physical, mental or social harm to oneself and others. In addition to many and various types of addiction, it seems that an important type of addiction is technology addiction. Today, the dizzying…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Middle School Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Ibrahim Durmus – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
The study aims to identify the factors that may influence university students' artificial intelligence addiction in educational activities. The study sample consists of 415 students currently studying at Bayburt University. The snowball sampling method was used in the research. In the study, an electronic survey was conducted with university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Artificial Intelligence, Addictive Behavior

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