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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
Direct linkTugba Kamali Arslantas; Muhammed Emre Yaylaci; Mehmet Özkaya – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
The current study aims to examine the association between digital literacy (DL), Internet addiction (IA) and cyberloafing (CL) levels of higher education students in Turkey. In addition, the study examined the correlation between "daily Internet use," "initial Internet usage," and "purpose of Internet use" with the…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Technological Literacy, Internet, College Students
Yongzhong Jiang; Dirgha Raj Joshi; Jeevan Khanal – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2024
University students' engagement in online activities can impact both internet addiction and academic performance. This research aims to investigate these effects among university students. Using data from the "China College Students Longitudinal Survey" conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences between 2013 and 2018, this study…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Influence of Technology, Addictive Behavior
Yazici-Kabadayi, Sema; Kabadayi, Fedai; Avci, Mehmet – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between internet addiction, relationship satisfaction, and Gestalt contact styles among university students. A sample from a university in Turkey was recruited, which included 373 university students (271 females, 72.7%), aged 15-55. We administered and assessed the Gestalt Contact…
Descriptors: College Students, Addictive Behavior, Internet, Interpersonal Relationship
Smartphone and Internet Addiction as Predictors of Cyberloafing Levels in Students: A Mediated Model
Öztürk, Mücahit; Kerse, Gökhan – Education for Information, 2022
This study aims to determine the predictors of cyberloafing behaviors of university students. In this context, we examined the effects of smartphone and internet addiction variables on cyberloafing levels. Besides, the mediator effect of internet addiction was determined in the impact of smartphone addiction on cyberloafing. We conducted the…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Predictor Variables
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
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
Kayla Kelley Waters – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As internet use continues to rise, school counselors encounter challenges related to problematic internet behaviors among secondary students. This qualitative study examines the experiences of Georgia school counselors when working to prevent, manage, and support these behaviors. I used a semi-structured format to interview 15 school counselors in…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Behavior, Secondary School Students, Behavior Problems
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
Karabatak, Songül; Alanoglu, Müslim – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
The purpose of this study is to test the relationships between teacher candidates' technology addiction and their social connectedness. Students studying at a faculty of education in a state university selected by the convenience sampling method constituted the sample of the study. Correlation analysis and association rules were used to analyze…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Internet, Handheld Devices
García-Santillán, Arturo; Mexicano-Fernández, Esmeralda; Molchanova, Violetta S. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2021
The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of Internet addiction in engineering students. It takes as a theoretical reference the scale proposed by Young (1998), which establish the criteria and ranges of addiction. The instrument is in Likert format with responses ranging from 1 (rarely) to 5 (always). The participants were 306 students…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Masrom, Maslin Binti; Busalim, Abdelsalam H.; Abuhassna, Hassan; Mahmood, Nik Hasnaa Nik – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2021
The use of online social networks (OSNs) has increasingly attracted attention from scholars' in different disciplines. Recently, student behaviors in online social networks have been extensively examined. However, limited efforts have been made to evaluate and systematically review the current research status to provide insights into previous…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Social Networks, Internet, Literature Reviews
Mayungbo, Olusegun; Akingbade, Retta; Ogunsanya, Oluwatomisin – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2022
Challenges relating to misuse and abuse of the internet and other mobile devices have become sources of concern among the youth population the world-over. However, research on cyber related issues has been focused mainly on adolescents in Nigeria. This study investigates the influence of cyber bullying, cyber victimization and pathological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication
Singh, Anjali; Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2021
The aim of the study is to understand the effect of Internet addiction on student's academic engagement. There are numerous studies explaining the negative relationship between Internet addiction and academic performance still very few studies could explain how the excessive use of the internet disrupts students' academic engagement. This study…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Student Behavior, Learner Engagement
Martínez Pérez, Sandra; Fernández Robles, Bárbara; Barroso Osuna, Julio; Llorente Cejudo, Carmen – Digital Education Review, 2021
The use of Smartphones, Tablets and Social Networks has grown exponentially in recent years as a means of communicating, interacting, sharing and working collaboratively. Increasingly, young people are recognising that they are establishing a greater relationship with technologies for educational and leisure purposes, to meet new people, create…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Social Media, Addictive Behavior
