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Wei Yao; Hanchao Hou; Peng Yang; Shiguang Ni – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Smartphone addiction and academic burnout are typical psycho-behavioral problems among adolescents. Extant studies tend to examine them from a single-problem perspective, while research on their co-occurrence is lacking. Moreover, research has been prone to focus on the impacts of the negative sides of smartphone use on the two problems, ignoring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior
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Alwaely, Suad Abdalkareem; Minnullina, Rosalia; Fedorova, Elena; Lazareva, Yuliya – Cogent Education, 2023
Not only children but also adults now spend much more time in front of the screen (computers, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, Play Station, other game consoles, etc.) for various reasons: work, study, a lot of free time, communication, entertainment, information retrieval. The aim of this paper is to examine how the time spent in front of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parents, Addictive Behavior
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Rodríguez-Torrico, Paula; San-Martín, Sonia; Jiménez, Nadia – Computers in the Schools, 2023
A major concern is how to tackle student smartphone addiction (SSA). First, however, analysis of the definition, causes, and consequences of SSA is necessary. There is a lack of consensus in this regard, and little research considers its multidisciplinary nature. This article first reviews the key literature across different disciplines. Based on…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Elementary School Students
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Sahin, Cengiz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to determine the social media addictions of secondary school, high school and university students. 998 students participated in the study. 476 students from secondary schools, high schools and universities participated in the first application during which the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Teo, Timothy; Kam, Chester – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
Following the call to ensure the validity of instruments used to assess users' level of Internet usage, this study examined the factor structure of the Internet Addiction Test-Adolescence version (IAT-A) when applied to a sample of young children in a multicultural society and assessed whether the items in the IAT-A were invariant by gender and,…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Addictive Behavior, Internet, Measures (Individuals)
Ives, Eugenia A. – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine and better understand the social cognitive effects of digital technology on teenagers' brains and their socialization processes, as well as to learn best practices with regard to digital technology consumption. An extensive literature review was conducted on the social cognitive effects of digital…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Literacy