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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 linkStinson, Lesleigh; Dallery, Jesse – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2023
Problematic social media use can be characterized as that which interferes with relationships, work, school, or sleep. Currently, there are no empirically supported treatments for reducing problematic social media use. We tested a package intervention to reduce the daily duration of social media use measured by a smartphone application with nine…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Handheld Devices, Intervention
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
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
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
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
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
Kesici, Ahmet; Tunç, Nazenin Fidan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study was carried out to develop a scale for determining the level of digital addiction of the youth. In this study carried out with a group of 687 students from Siirt, Dicle and Erzincan Universities, a draft scale of 28 items based on the interviews with two students who spent a long time with digital tools and their friends, and on the…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, College Students, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Kerimova, Melek; Gunuc, Selim – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of the present paper was to adapt Gunuc and Kayri's (2010) "Internet Addiction Scale," with show validity and reliability for many various sampling groups, into the Azerbaijani language. Another objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of Internet addiction among Azerbaijani adolescents and youth, which…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Internet, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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
