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Download full textMensah Prince Osiesi; Olutoyin Olufunke Fajobi; Sikeade Mercy Adegboyega; Abiodun Adesope Fadiya; Olaitan Titilayo Akinola; Muyiwa Sunday Ajimuse; Folasade Oluyemisi Olayinka; Sunday Nnamdi Okocha; Tolulope Oluwatoyin Olayiwola-Adedoja; Oladipo Adeyeye Olubodun; Atinuke Titilope Babalola; Valentina Grion – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2025
Objective: Internet addiction among university undergraduates may deeply impact their academic lives. This study investigated the association between academic fatigue, academic engagement, academic performance, gender, and internet addiction and how the variables jointly and relatively predict internet addiction among undergraduates in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Direct linkWei 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
Anna Sui; Wuyou Sui; Jennifer Irwin – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Smartphone ownership and engagement are at an all-time high. Excessive smartphone use may impart smartphone-specific anxiety; specifically, the fear of being unable to access or use one's smartphone, or nomophobia. Young adults, in particular, are at higher risk for nomophobia, given higher ownership of and engagement with smartphones. Notably,…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Anxiety
Konca, Ahmet Sami; Baltaci, Onder; Akbulut, Omer Faruk – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
This study aimed to develop a measurement tool to identify preschool children's problematic technology use levels and contribute to Turkish literature. The study group included in the exploratory factor analysis was composed of 357 voluntary children in the preschool period. The study group included in the confirmatory factor analysis, proximal…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Computer Use, Technology, Test Construction
Nurudeen, Mohammed; Abdul-Samad, Siddique; Owusu-Oware, Emmanuel; Koi-Akrofi, Godfred Yaw; Tanye, Hannah Ayaba – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
With the advent of smartphones and fourth generation mobile technologies, the effect of social media on society has stirred up some debate and researchers across various disciplines have drawn different conclusions. Social media provides university students with a convenient platform to create and share educational content. However, social media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Prediction
García-Santillán, Arturo; Mexicano-Fernández, Esmeralda; Molchanova, Violetta S. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2021
The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of Internet addiction in engineering students. It takes as a theoretical reference the scale proposed by Young (1998), which establish the criteria and ranges of addiction. The instrument is in Likert format with responses ranging from 1 (rarely) to 5 (always). The participants were 306 students…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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
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
Bayanova, Almira R.; Chistyakov, Alexey A.; Timofeeva, Maria O.; Nasonkin, Vladimir V.; Shulga, Tatiana I.; Vasyukov, Vitaly F. – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2022
Smartphones facilitate communication, education, information, and entertainment through a diverse array of mobile applications. Excessive smartphone use has become a significant societal issue. The research community has explored both the positive and negative consequences of mobile phone use. The phrase "problematic smartphone use"…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
Omoyemiju, Michael Adeniyi; Popoola, Bayode Isaiah – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
In this study the prevalence of internet addiction was ascertained among students of a university in Nigeria, using a survey design method. A sample of 1448 students was selected through a proportionate sampling technique. Data were collected using Young's (1998) Internet Addiction Test. Fourteen percent of the students exhibited severe levels of…
Descriptors: Incidence, Internet, Computer Use, Handheld Devices
Omarova, Gulnara; Saduakas, Gulbanu; Zhumabayeva, Aziya; Akzholova, Aktoty; Uaisova, Gulnar – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
The aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of elementary school 4th graders regarding electronic books developed through innovative technologies in the development of vocabulary. Qualitative research methods were used in accordance with the purpose of the research. The data of the research were collected by the semi-structured…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Electronic Publishing, Addictive Behavior
Olasina, Gbolahan; Kheswa, Siyanda – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2021
There is an exponential increase of apprehension in the uptake, affordances and the excessive use of smartphones by multiple categories of users and the impact on the society. The research evaluates excessive use within a user community in a developing country landscape. It is estimated that many young people spend too much time on their phones…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Yang, Hui-Ling; Wu, Wei-Pang – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2017
This study investigated the online flow frequency among college students in regard to different internet activities, and analyzed the effect of flow frequency on internet addiction. This study surveyed 525 undergraduate internet users in Taiwan by using convenience sampling to question participants. In this paper, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Computer Use
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
Karimzadeh, Nazanin – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The present study is about "Investigating the relationship between internet addictions and strengthening students' social skill reinforcement." One of the social elements in all cultures is social skill or ability to communicate with others effectively. One of the factors that affect this skill is addiction to Internet which has recently…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Interpersonal Competence, Undergraduate Students
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