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Rudkovska, Anna; Sui, Wuyou; Irwin, Jennifer D. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To explore the prevalence and severity of smartphone addiction among a sample of Canadian university students. Participants: A sample of 925 full-time university students enrolled at the host institution were recruited. Participants were primarily undergraduates (70.2%), women (77.1%), and owned an Apple smartphone (70.3%). Methods:…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Foreign Countries, College Students
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lazarinis, Fotis; Alexandri, Kyriaki; Panagiotakopoulos, Chris; Verykios, Vasileios S. – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This study presents a novel application which through storytelling attempts to improve the understanding of students with respect to online risks. Each short story presents a situation that children face while surfing the Internet. Through the emotions of the virtual characters and the existence of specific visual clues the tool seeks to make…
Descriptors: Young Children, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Story Telling
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Omoyemiju, Michael Adeniyi; Popoola, Bayode Isaiah – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
In this study the prevalence of internet addiction was ascertained among students of a university in Nigeria, using a survey design method. A sample of 1448 students was selected through a proportionate sampling technique. Data were collected using Young's (1998) Internet Addiction Test. Fourteen percent of the students exhibited severe levels of…
Descriptors: Incidence, Internet, Computer Use, Handheld Devices
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Kaya, Sinan; Kaya, Mevlüt – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the smartphone addiction levels among university students. For this purpose, first of all, students' addiction levels were determined, and then it was examined whether these levels differed according to the gender of the students, the purpose of using the internet on the smartphone, and the usage times of…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Student Behavior
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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
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Valencia-Ortiz, Rubicelia; Cabero-Almenara, Julio; Garay Ruiz, Urtza – Digital Education Review, 2021
Addictions to online social networks is a problem facing technological societies, and those most affected by this phenomenon are young people and teenagers. Among its effects are the decrease in academic performance and the increase in violent behavior. Given these facts, governments around the world are adopting mechanisms for their prevention.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Addictive Behavior, Social Media, Student Behavior
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Kolan, Halil Ibrahim; Dinçer, Beste – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2021
The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between problematic internet use and learning responsibilities of students studying at different types of high schools in the province of Aydin and also to examine whether problematic internet usage and learning responsibilities of high school students differ significantly according to gender…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Use, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Colomo Magaña, Ernesto; Cívico Ariza, Andrea; Ruiz Palmero, Julio; Sánchez Rivas, Enrique – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
The excessive use of ICTs is a growing problem among young people. The social isolation caused by COVID-19 can increase these inappropriate behaviour. This study aims at analysing the problematic use of ICTs in trainee teachers based on the gender variable before and after the COVID-19 lockdown based on the gender variable. A longitudinal panel…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Isolation, Preservice Teachers
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Göldag, Battal – International Education Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between digital game dependence levels and violence tendency levels of high school students. In the present research, relational survey model has been used. The population of the study consists of 9th, 10th, 11th grade students in the high schools in Battalgazi and Yesilyurt districts of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Correlation, Computer Games, Addictive Behavior
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Arslan, Nihan; Kiper, Aydin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The aim of study is to investigate the relationship between self-disclosure and internet addiction. Self-Disclosure Scale and Internet Addiction Scale were applied to students. Results indicated a negative correlation between self-disclosure and internet addiction. Self-disclosure was negative predicted by internet addiction in the structural…
Descriptors: Self Disclosure (Individuals), Internet, Addictive Behavior, Correlation
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Ramazanoglu, Mehmet – World Journal of Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between high school students' internet addiction, social media usage disorder, and smartphone addiction. The descriptive relational scanning model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used to determine this relationship. The research was carried out with 215 students who continue…
Descriptors: Correlation, High School Students, Internet, Addictive Behavior
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