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Direct linkJill M. Singer; Alayna P. Tackett; Mahmood A. Alalwan; Megan E. Roberts – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: This study examined the relationship between use patterns of a popular e-cigarette brand using nicotine salts, JUUL, and symptoms of nicotine dependence in a college cohort. Participants: Data for this study came from a prospective cohort of undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university from 2018 to 2019. Methods: Among…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Smoking, Addictive Behavior, Incidence
Noor-i-Kiran Naeem; Zil-e-Fatima Naeem; Asfand Yar Anwar – Discover Education, 2024
This study aimed to determine the trends of smartphone usage and behaviours associated with its use among undergraduate medical students at ABWA Medical College, Pakistan. Conducted from July to December 2023, this cross-sectional survey involved 270 undergraduate medical students, with 264 participants responding, resulting in a 97.7% response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Handheld Devices
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
Özge Canogullari – Journal of Theoretical Educational Sciences, 2025
The literature indicates that there is a relationship between social media addiction and psychological stress. However, there is still limited understanding of the specific ways in which social media addiction leads to psychological distress. This study examines the mediating role of doomscrolling in the relationship between social media addiction…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Mental Health, Stress Variables
Tugba Kamali Arslantas; Muhammed Emre Yaylaci; Mehmet Özkaya – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
The current study aims to examine the association between digital literacy (DL), Internet addiction (IA) and cyberloafing (CL) levels of higher education students in Turkey. In addition, the study examined the correlation between "daily Internet use," "initial Internet usage," and "purpose of Internet use" with the…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Technological Literacy, Internet, College Students
Muhammad Abbas; Tariq Iqbal Khan; Farooq Ahmed Jam – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2025
There has been a notable increase in students' usage of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, for academic purposes. The current study aimed to investigate the relationships between students' innovation consciousness, need for cognition, and their usage of ChatGPT. The study also examined the relationship between…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Innovation, Correlation
Yuntian Xie; Ying Li; Taowen Yu; Yuxuan Liu – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study aimed to develop and validate the Metacognitions about Generative AI Use Scale (MGAUS) to assess college students' metacognitive beliefs about generative AI and to explore these metacognitions as predictors of generative AI addiction risk. A total of 1229 college students from China participated in the study, providing data through an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Metacognition, Student Attitudes
Deniz Mertkan Gezgin; Tugba Türk Kurtça; Can Mihci; Chung-Ying Lin; Mark D. Griffiths – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Smartphone addiction (SA) has become a pervasive issue among university students. Therefore, it is important to better understand the conditions under which SA develops. Previous studies indicate that fear of missing out (FoMO), a psychological barrier to behavioural self-regulation, is often associated with SA risk. In the pedagogical context,…
Descriptors: College Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior
Andrew Ives – About Campus, 2025
This love letter is a call to higher education professionals to raise their critical consciousness of the ways addiction and recovery affect professional practice in higher education. Some questions for consideration to raise critical consciousness around addiction and recovery in the academy are: what is your relationship to drugs and alcohol? Do…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Substance Abuse, Addictive Behavior
Rebekah Reysen; Richard Balkin; Amanda Winburn – College Teaching, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between academic entitlement, gaming, addiction, and life balance. College students (n = 230) on academic probation (cumulative GPA < 2.0) enrolled at a large, public southern university participated in the study. We were able to successfully predict entitlement using life balance…
Descriptors: Expectation, Games, Addictive Behavior, College Students
Heng Yue; Guang Yang; Hugejiletu Bao; Xinzhe Bao; Xuemin Zhang – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Although the relationships between some antecedents (such as affective disorders and negative emotions) and short-form video addiction have been verified by previous studies, the association between negative cognitive bias and this addictive behavior has not been examined, and the underlying psychological mechanisms are still unclear. The present…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Video Technology, Addictive Behavior, Correlation
Hongyang Liu; Lucie Vachova; Irena Plevova – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Mobile phone dependence refers to the excessive use of mobile phones by individuals, which may cause problems in study, work and life. We compared differences in mobile phone dependence among Chinese and Czech university students, and explore the relationship between mobile phone dependence and academic achievement among them in this paper. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Academic Achievement
Fatma Kurker; Abdullah Surucu – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Academic procrastination is the failure to perform academic tasks on time or not doing at all. It can cause undesirable consequences for students' academic development and mental health. It has a complex structure that includes cognitive and emotional components in addition to its behavioral dimension. This study seeks to answer whether social…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Social Media, Time Management, Student Behavior
Stinson, 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
Amy L. Grybush; George Stoupas; Phillip B. Clarke – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2025
This pilot study examined counselor-in-training (CIT) attitudes and awareness regarding stigma and stigmatizing language aimed at those with substance use disorders before and after an author-developed educational intervention. Results indicated this intervention positively impacted CIT awareness and attitudes and their ability to identify and…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Student Attitudes, Addictive Behavior, Substance Abuse
