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…

This quantitative study explores parental awareness of gaming addiction risks and their perceptions of coping strategies among middle school students in Jazan region, Saudi Arabia. Data were collected from 245 parents using a validated questionnaire designed to assess perceptions of three primary risks associated with gaming addiction: health,…

Ostracism and dark triad personality traits have been found to be linked with social media addiction. Despite the well-established relationship between the dark triad (i.e., narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and social media addiction, there is limited research on their mediating effect. In the present study, we tested a hypothetical…

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…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the whole world, education in Turkey, as in foreign countries, has been carried out through e-learning and therefore through a screen. This pandemic has been a factor that has increased the time students spend with screens out of the lesson. Since screens have become an essential part of daily life, it is…

The purpose of the study was to examine whether personality traits had a mediator role on the relationship between university students' digital addiction behaviour and academic self-efficacy. The study sample consisted of 1348 students (876 females and 472 males) who were chosen through random sampling from university students who from different…

Although research has investigated the association between pathological gaming and academic performance in adolescence, the complexity of the relationship has not been thoroughly examined. This short longitudinal study aimed to investigate the interactions between pathological gaming, academic self-efficacy, academic initiative, and academic…

The increasing prevalence of digital technologies has notably expanded children's accessibility to a diverse range of digital tools day by day. Consequently, this evolution has significantly influenced the gaming landscape, propelling the surge in popularity of digital games among children. This change has also led to the need for changes in the…

This study aims to examine the paths between excessive Internet use, school burnout and parental monitoring and their predictor effects in peer bullying and victimization among Turkish adolescents. The relational survey design was employed in the study. The study group consisted of 362 students (108 females, 254 males, aged 15-18 years) from three…

This survey study was designed to examine Pakistani university students' addiction levels of their smartphone use and to investigate the impact of smartphone addiction on their satisfaction with classroom connectedness. The data were gathered from 438 students at two universities. The participants came from both genders (258 male and 160 female)…

This paper regards a study aiming to investigate secondary school pupils' attitudes regarding mobile phone possible dependence. A 26-item questionnaire was administered to 504 pupils aged 12-18 years old, in Greece. Around half of the sample reported perceptions linked to the social motivational aspect of the mobile phones (peer dependence), phone…