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Weihong Ning; Fethi A. Inan – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the underlying mechanisms through which social media (SNS) addiction influences college students' academic performance. We developed an integrated model of the relationship between SNS addiction and academic performance based on the dual-systems theory. A total of 251 college students participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Student Behavior, College Students
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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
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Farid, Muhammad Faisal; Jalal, Hina; Iqbal, Sara – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2022
Social media propagation carries the capacity for global communication and societal wellbeing, digital trading, entertainment, and the centre of engagement. The consequences of over-engagement in social media lead to depression, stress, and low performance. This study unfolds tendencies of excessive use of social media towards general anxiety and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Emotional Intelligence
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Kendra Delaney; Mary S. Dietrich; Collen Corte; Terrah Foster Akard; Mariann R. Piano – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study examined the associations of anxiety and drinking motives with hazardous and binge alcohol use among young adults. Participants: We recruited young adults (N = 182, mean age 25) between November 2020 and December 2020. Methods: Linear regressions were used to evaluate relationships among hazardous alcohol use (US Alcohol Use…
Descriptors: College Students, Young Adults, Private Colleges, Black Colleges
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Reysen, Rebekah; Reysen, Matthew; Reysen, Stephen – College Teaching, 2021
In the present study, we examined the relationship between academic entitlement, nomophobia, and cellular phone usage during class. Students reported the amount of time spent on their phones during class, frequency of checking phones during class, academic entitlement, and dimensions of nomophobia (cell phone addiction). Academic entitlement and…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Anxiety, College Students
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Sahin, Münir; Bulbuloglu, Semra – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study aimed to examine the effects of nomophobic behaviors of university students on their intellectual thinking tendency in their daily lives. This study used a descriptive and cross-sectional study design. The study was conducted between May and June 2020 with the online participation of 448 university students in Turkey. The study sample…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, College Students, Late Adolescents, Intellectual Development
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Baltaci, Onder – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine the level of internet addiction of university students in the coronavirus epidemic process in terms of various variables. The research was carried out with the screening model, which is one of the quantitative research methods. The study group in Turkey between coronavirus outbreak and characterized by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Addictive Behavior, Internet
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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
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Obedzinski, Kaitlyn; Edgerton, Jason D.; Roberts, Lance W. – College Student Journal, 2019
This study investigates some of the motivational and behavioral correlates of problem gambling behaviours in a Canadian university sample of emerging adults. This transitional developmental stage presents many new opportunities and challenges that may strain emerging adults' coping capacities, and is typically characterized by heightened tolerance…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Games, Probability, Risk