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Siah, Poh Chua; Hue, Jie Yeng; Wong, Bernie Zi Ru; Goh, Sin Jie – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
The excessive use of social media is prevalent among undergraduates. Dark triad personality is one of the significant predictors of social media addiction, but inconsistent findings were reported. This study adopted the personality-coping-outcome theory as a framework to examine whether coping strategies mediate the effects of dark triad…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Young Adults, Social Media, Computer Use
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Cetinkaya, Levent – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2019
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between parental psychological and behavioral control which the adolescents perceived from their parents and internet addiction. It employed relational survey model and was carried out with the participation of a total of 356 students (female=205, male=151) aged 14-18. Correlation and regression…
Descriptors: Parent Student Relationship, Correlation, Internet, Addictive Behavior
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Erol, Osman; Cirak, Nese Sevim – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2019
The aim of this study is to examine the loneliness and Internet addiction levels of college students in terms of demographic variables and to determine the variables that predict their Internet addiction level. Data were collected from college students studying at a public university in Turkey. The UCLA Loneliness Scale Version3 and Internet…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Demography
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Simsek, Eylem; Sali, Jale Balaban – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2014
How Internet addiction affects happiness of university students in terms of their cognitive and emotional resources was not adequately investigated. One of the inner resources of life satisfaction and happiness is defined as psychological capital (PsyCap), under the paradigm of positive psychology. PsyCap consists of four main sub-factors: hope,…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Emotional Response