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Jiayi Li; Aitao Lu; Liwen Ye; Guoping Chen; Hong Ling; Wanyi Chen; Yingjie Zhong; Yuening An; Xiayao Ke – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Mobile phone addiction (MPA) has become a prevalent issue among adolescents, which is closely associated with cognitive failure. The present study seeks to explore the network structure of the association between MPA and cognitive failure among adolescents by network analysis, as well as the mediating roles of self-control and mind wandering by…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior, Self Control
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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
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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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Antony Fute; Yifan Feng; Feifei Huang; Xiangdan Zhao; Daniel Kangwa; Mohamed Oubibi – Discover Education, 2025
Students' excessive reliance on mobile phones during English classes diminishes their learning engagement and understanding, which in turn affects their academic performance. Teachers' prior observations at our selected university indicated that smartphone usage among English learners varied significantly across class groups and among individual…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior
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Kayis, Ahmet Rifat – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2022
In this study the aim was to examine the mediation role of smartphone addiction in the association between mindfulness/impulsivity and psychological distress. The participants consisted of 343 (178 [54.8%] male and 147 [45.2%] female) university students from five different universities in Turkey. Cross-sectional data were gathered using…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Control, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health
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Seungyeon Lee; Minsung Kim; Jessica Mendoza; Jennifer Miller – College Student Journal, 2022
Electronic devices (e.g., cellphones) are a means of technology advancement, but research suggests that frequent use of them in the classroom impairs attention and learning (Lee et al., 2017; Mendoza et al., 2018; Lee et al., 2020). The present study (N = 393) establishes a pre-existing regression model examining the significance of mindfulness…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, College Students
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Sakiroglu, Mehmet – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2019
The use of smart phones is quite common among young people. This may sometimes cause problems. Different steps are being taken in the schools regarding the rules that students should follow for the use of telephone. However, student-oriented solutions are needed. The main aim of this study is to reveal the role of self-control, difficulties in…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Self Control, Emotional Response
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Fu, En; Gao, Qiufeng; Wei, Chuqian; Chen, Qianyi; Liu, Yijun – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
Smartphone use in learning settings is a common behaviour amongst college students. Building on the theory of consumerism, self-efficacy and addictive behaviours, the current study developed a three-component conceptual framework to understand college students' smartphone use in organizational as well as self-directed learning settings. One…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Laverne Heather DaCosta – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The digital revolution of over twenty years has shifted how society communicates and the cellphone has become the most popular communication tool among adolescents. Consequently, cellphone use in the 21st century has extended to the classroom, and many educators are overwhelmed by students' unauthorized cellphone use. Researchers suggested…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Handheld Devices, Synchronous Communication, Attention Control
Dwane Glenn Martinson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored how enrolled freshman college students, ages 18-21, described their experiences and user behaviors while actively using personal communication devices (PCD) and social networking sites (SNS) to complete course-related activities in their introductory psychology class at a four-year public university. Twenty semi-structured…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Public Colleges, Student Experience, Handheld Devices
Kemp, William M., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Smartphones and their impact on academic success was chosen as the research topic for this dissertation. This was chosen because smartphones have become very popular tools for many people, especially for students in an educational setting. Further, the use of these devices and others, such as laptops and tablets, has aided students in boosting…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Telecommunications, Correlation
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Tomczyk, Lukasz; Szyszka, Michal; Stošic, Lazar – Education Sciences, 2020
Problematic Internet Use (PIU) has of late come to the major attention of researchers of risky behaviours. For parents and teachers in turn, the various pathological forms of Internet use have become more and more noticeable. In recent years, the operationalisation of the term PIU has also been discussed and attempts to measure its various…
Descriptors: Internet, Risk, Behavior Problems, Pathology
Kanthawongs, Penjira; Jabutay, Felicito Angeles; Upalanala, Ruangrit; Kanthawongs, Penjuree – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
Apart from Internet addiction, smartphone addiction has played important roles in students' lives as observed in recent studies. There are positive and negative aspects in using smartphones especially in higher education. University administrators or instructors should take into account what factors are affecting students' smartphone addiction in…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior, Foreign Countries