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Wei Yao; Hanchao Hou; Peng Yang; Shiguang Ni – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior
Nidhya Balasubramanian; Satyanarayana Parayitam – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2023
As smartphones have become effective substitutes for laptops and desktops, smartphone users have been increasing at astronomical proportions. Smartphones have emerged as a valuable tool to communicate with others and constantly keep themselves abreast of what is happening in the world. This may result in a behavioral change called the 'fear of…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Academic Achievement
Lee, Seungyeon; McDonough, Ian M.; Mendoza, Jessica S.; Brasfield, Mikenzi B.; Enam, Tasnuva; Reynolds, Catherine; Pody, Benjamin C. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Students' cellphone use has been related to poorer learning, possibly due to greater distraction. This study investigated whether cellphone-related anxiety, addiction, and disconnection were related to distraction and learning as well as how practical educational policies could minimize negative effects. Participants (N = 218) watched a video…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Attention
Wuyou Sui; Anna Sui; Joseph Munn; Jennifer D. Irwin – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Background: This study aimed to: (a) explore differences in the prevalence of nomophobia and smartphone addiction (SA) from pre- to during COVID-19; (b) identify students' self-reported changes in smartphone reliance and screen time during COVID-19; and (c) examine whether self-perceived changes in smartphone usage predicted nomophobia and SA…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Anxiety, Addictive Behavior
Ling Gao; Fangyuan Kong; Fengfeng Liu; Zixi Zhang; Xingchao Wang – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Previous research has demonstrated shyness plays a critical role in the development and maintenance of smartphone addiction. The present study aimed to examine the mediating roles of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and experiential avoidance as well as the moderating role of online social support in the relation between shyness…
Descriptors: Shyness, Addictive Behavior, Handheld Devices, Self Control
Fatih Aydogdu; Neriman Aral; Figen Gursoy; Burcin Aysu – International Technology and Education Journal, 2024
In this study, it is aimed to develop a scale to determine the nomophobia levels of adolescents. The study included 884 adolescents aged 10-18. The theoretical basis was created by first reviewing the literature to reveal the structure of nomophobia in adolescents, which is the feature to be measured in the study. Similar scales were taken as a…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Anxiety, Fear, Adolescents
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
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
Okur, Sinan; Acar-Bulut, Özlem; Erden-Çinar, Seval – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2022
This study examines the mediating role of social media usage habits in the relationship between FoMO and nomophobia. 457 people were recruited to participate in the study. While 177 of them were male, the remaining 280 participants were female, and the participants' age ranged between 18 and 70. The average age of the participants was calculated…
Descriptors: Social Media, Psychological Patterns, Late Adolescents, Adults
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
Nico Botha; Zyliekha Julie Matwadia – Perspectives in Education, 2023
A person's fear of not having a mobile phone on hand may inhibit certain aspects of a person's life. This study sought to investigate nomophobia (the irrational fear of not having access to mobile devices) as a possible mental disorder in the Gauteng education sector. To address nomophobia as a possible mental health disorder in Gauteng schools,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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
Bayanova, Almira R.; Chistyakov, Alexey A.; Timofeeva, Maria O.; Nasonkin, Vladimir V.; Shulga, Tatiana I.; Vasyukov, Vitaly F. – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2022
Smartphones facilitate communication, education, information, and entertainment through a diverse array of mobile applications. Excessive smartphone use has become a significant societal issue. The research community has explored both the positive and negative consequences of mobile phone use. The phrase "problematic smartphone use"…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
Idil, Önder; Çakir, Recep; Akman, Emrah – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The purpose of this study was to assess in-service preschool teachers' and preschool teacher candidates' levels of Nomophobia (NO MObile PHone phOBIA) and FoMO (Fear of Missing Out). This study is a quantitative one in its nature, and rests on the correlational survey design from descriptive research models. We recruited a total of 310…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Handheld Devices, Fear
Tella, Adeyinka – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2021
The study examined dependency, satisfaction, and psychosocial characteristics as correlates of cell phone use by library and information science (LIS) undergraduate students. Using survey, 253 undergraduates represent the sample for the study. Five research questions were developed and answered. The results of the psychosocial characteristics'…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Student Satisfaction, Psychological Characteristics, Handheld Devices