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Norazha Paiman; Muhammad Ashraf Fauzi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This research aims to build on the pre-existing corpus of literature through the integration of the technology acceptance model (TAM) and usage habit to more accurately capture the determinants associated with social media addiction among university students. This study seeks to delineate how usage habit and TAM may be used as predictors…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Technology, Student Attitudes
Hok-Ko Pong – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
This study explores the correlation between spiritual well-being and game addiction among Chinese youths in Hong Kong. To examine such a relationship, cross-sectional data (N = 401) were taken from a sample of 209 Chinese university students in 2021 and 192 Chinese university students in 2022. They are between 18-21 years old. The participants…
Descriptors: Well Being, Spiritual Development, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Rahim, Nurul Ain Abd; Siah, Yih Huang; Tee, Xiang Yi; Siah, Poh Chua – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2021
Studies found that smartphone addiction is relevant to the personality of smartphone users, especially the extroverts and introverts. However, the findings of the associations between extroverts/introverts and smartphone addiction are not consistent, and it is suggested that the inconsistency results can be relevant to the types of smartphone use.…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Use Studies, Predictor Variables
Zhao, Lei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Social media use can bring negative effects to college students, such as social media addiction (SMA) and decline in academic performance. SMA may increase the perceived stress level of college students, and stress has a negative impact on academic performance, but this potential mediating role of stress has not been verified in existing studies.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Undergraduate Students, Addictive Behavior, Predictor Variables
Laura J. Holt; Meredith K. Ginley; Clara Pingeon; Richard Feinn – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: College students use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) more often than any other US demographic group. In a novel application of the acquired preparedness model, we examined how proximal (e.g., cognitions) and distal (e.g., dispositional) influences accounted for ENDS use and dependence. Participants: Undergraduates (N = 1075;…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Risk, Health Behavior
Johan, Zaimy Johana; Hafit, Nor Intan Adha; Tusyanah, Tusyanah – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
Technology addiction has become an alarming disorder that has increasingly caught the attention of researchers, mental health counsellors and doctors. Unfortunately, those who are having the disorder do not realize that they are going through the phase of pleasurable, addictive experience of appealing themselves by long hours of social networking,…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables
Akinci, Tuncay – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
In this study, the relationship between problematic smartphone use, self-regulation, academic procrastination and academic stress among university students was examined. The theoretical model constructed to explain the predictive relationships between variables was tested using path analysis. Research data was collected from a sample of 632…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Self Management
Elliot Grace – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dangerous alcohol use, or binge drinking and alcohol use that results in significant negative consequences, is a major health concern in university populations. Research on graduate students' and Veteran students' alcohol use is limited. Using protective behavioral strategies (PBS) before or during alcohol use can attenuate the negative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Veterans, Drinking
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
Nwosu, Kingsley Chinaza; Ikwuka, O. I.; Onyinyechi, Mary Ugorji; Unachukwu, Gabriel Chidi – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
Researchers are of the view that students' attachment to social media may lead to negative consequences such as postponement of their academic work. Yet how social media use is associated with academic procrastination of students is still underexplored. This study ascertained the pathways through which social media use predicted academic…
Descriptors: Social Media, Internet, Student Behavior, Predictor Variables
Predictive Relationships among Smartphone Addiction, Fear of Missing out and Interaction Anxiousness
Buyukbayraktar, Cagla Girgin – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
The aim of this study is to reveal the predictive relationships among smartphone addiction, fear of missing out (FOMO) and interaction anxiousness in university students. The study group of the research consists of 610 university students, 325 (53.3%) females and 285 (46.7%) males that were studying in Konya Turkey. In order to collect the data…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Interaction
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
Blackstone, Sarah R.; Johnson, Aimee K.; Sutton, Debra – American Journal of Health Education, 2019
Background: Limited research exists on mental health correlates of behaviors of weight-conscious drinking (BWCD) and students' perceptions of how BWCD should be addressed. Purpose: The objectives were to (1) examine BWCD and different aspects of mental health and (2) gain insight into students' perceptions of such behaviors and potential…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Mental Health, Drinking, Student Attitudes
Schoenfeld, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current study addressed some of the methodological shortcomings of previous studies on internet addiction. The main purpose of the study was to determine if two different internet addiction assessments would identify the same individuals as addicted to the internet. A total of 224 undergraduate internet users were surveyed using a stratified…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Correlation