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Sahin, Cengiz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Social media addiction is considered as a sort of Internet addiction. Individuals who spend too much time on social media have a desire to be notified of anything immediately, which can cause virtual tolerance, virtual communication and virtual problems. Behaviours that force the person into these actions can be explained as social media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Life Satisfaction, College Students
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Eroglu, Yuksel – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Social networking sites have started to become one of the most frequently used online communication types in the world. It is reported that one of the commonly used social networking sites is Facebook. Since Facebook use is new yet, it can be stated that researches on the Facebook addiction are at the beginning level. For this reason, determining…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Student Characteristics
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Gezgin, Deniz Mertkan – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship among smartphone addiction, fear of missing out (FoMO), excessive use of social networking sites (SNSs) on smartphones and sleep duration among high school students. The study group consists of 161 high school students from two state high schools in Turkey. Pearson correlation coefficient and…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Handheld Devices, Correlation, Age Differences
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