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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
Dere, Zeynep – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
Digitalization is an unavoidable benefits of modern life Digital transformation and change continue to be experienced in every field. Adolescents have accessed many apps, including those related to their academic life, online in the past year. It is vital for the health of adolescents that researchers identify their Internet addictions and come up…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Student Behavior, Internet, Undergraduate Students
Direct linkAnna 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
Sourav Choudhury; Nikita Ruth D’cruz; Joy Prakash Deb; Samiul Biswas; Sandeep Dagdu Patil – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
The study aimed at exploring the relationship between social media disorder and academic procrastination, and to thereby investigate the mediating effects of intrusive thinking and fatigue. By enrolling 412 undergraduate college students in India, the interconnectedness of the four variables was investigated using Social Media Disorder scale by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Student Motivation
Çelebi, Murat; Özkul, Kader – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study aims to examine the relationship between university students' goal commitment and social media addiction. The participants consist of undergraduate and graduate students studying in the 2019-2020 period. Total of 697 university students, including 406 (58.2%) women and 291 (41.8%) men were joined in the study. The online questionnaire…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Goal Orientation, Undergraduate Students
Serdar, Emrah; Demirel, Mehmet; Harmandar Demirel, Duygu – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
This study aimed to describe the relationships between leisure boredom, leisure satisfaction, and smartphone addictions among university students. The study sample consisted of 258 participants, 143 males and 115 females, studying at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa Faculty of Sports Sciences. The participants were selected using the purposeful…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Gender Differences, Leisure Time
Rogowska, Aleksandra M.; Zmaczynska-Witek, Barbara; Olejniczak, Patrycja – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Introduction: This study aims to examine the association between depression and workaholism among university students. Methods: Participants were 182 undergraduates at a large university in the South of Poland, aged between 20-28 years old (M = 22.17, SD = 1.39), including 102 women (56%). The cross-sectional study used the Beck Depression…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Intellectual Disciplines
Wei, Li-Wei – Online Submission, 2023
In the current socio-digital epoch, the intricate interplay between social media addiction and its potential ramifications on romantic relationships remains largely enigmatic, especially within specific demographic subsets. This study aims to elucidate the repercussions of social media addiction on love relationship closeness and satisfaction…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Peer Relationship, Student Satisfaction
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
Li, Jiaqi; Liu, Xun – Journal of International Students, 2021
While Internet use plays an increasingly important role in individuals' lives, many college students have found themselves totally unconsciously plunged into Internet addiction (IA). Guided by the acculturative stress theory, we examined the relationships between acculturative stress, gender, age, length of stay, and IA among international college…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Acculturation, Culture Conflict
Koc, Mustafa; Tanrikulu, Cagri – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
Intense Internet use, which disrupts people's daily routine responsibilities and disrupts the quality of life, points to the problem of Internet addiction (IA). This problem is more common among youngsters. Especially university students who move away from family surveillance and have more access to the Internet are in the high risk group.…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Gazo, Ahmad M.; Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Abood, Mohammed H.; Muhediat, Faten A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The present study investigates the relationship between social self-efficacy, loneliness and internet addiction among Hashemite University students. It defines the level of social self-efficacy, and whether there are statistically significant differences by gender, academic specialization and academic level; and defines the levels of loneliness…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Interpersonal Competence, Addictive Behavior, Correlation
Okudan, Bilal; Karakullukçu, Ömür Fatih – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
The aim of this study is to analyse the effects of university level sport education on social media addiction. For this purpose, social media addiction scales filled in by 320 students from the faculty of Sports Sciences and 333 students from the faculty of Education were evaluated. T-test, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) and LSD test were used…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Social Media, Internet
Milková, Eva; Kaliba, Martin; Ambrožová, Petra – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2022
The main purpose of the presented study is to explore the existing risk of Internet addiction for undergraduate students of Czech universities. The research was conducted as quantitative research; a CIAS-R questionnaire was applied. The data were collected in the years just before the Covid-19 pandemic (between October 2019 and March 2020). 3,366…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Risk, Undergraduate Students
Karaman, Mehmet Akif – Research on Education and Media, 2019
In recent years, social media use and its effects on mental health have been investigated many times. Mostly, studies focused less on the global health when addressing mental health. In this cluster analysis study, on a sample of 261 Turkish college students who were emerging adults, the associations between social media use and depression, sleep…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Depression (Psychology)
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