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Engin Kutluay; Feride Karaca – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
An exploratory sequential mixed-method study is designed to develop and test a comprehensive model explaining the relationships between factors associated with smartphone addiction and high school students' academic achievement. Involving two main phases of qualitative and quantitative, focus group discussions with high school students and…
Descriptors: Models, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior
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Maslin Masrom; Abdelsalam Busalim; Mark D. Griffiths; Shahla Asadi; Raihana Mohd Ali – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The use of Instagram is becoming increasingly popular among students. Excessive Instagram use (EIU) has become a growing problem that can impact students' lives psychosocially. This study applied uses and gratifications theory (UGT) to explore the impact of social gratification, content gratification, and entertainment along with social presence,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Delay of Gratification, Social Influences, Interpersonal Relationship
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Randah Barakat – International Education Studies, 2024
The present work explores the potential role of smartphone addiction in mediating the correlation between self-efficacy and Psychological Escapism among university students. The paper's stratified convenience sample comprised 195 students from the World Islamic Sciences and Education University. Validated scales measuring self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Telecommunications, College Students
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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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Ahmed, Abdulatif Hajjismael; Elemo, Aman Sado; Hamed, Osman Alfahim Osman – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
With the advent of smartphone technologies, connections to other people, information, and services have transcended everyday norms. However, together with the evolving technologies, unprecedented changes in the behaviors of individuals are emerging. Among these changes is phubbing, the practice of ignoring those in the immediate surroundings…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Metacognition, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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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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Gurbuz, Fatmagul; Bayrakli, Mehmet; Gezgin, Deniz Mertkan – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
With the increase in smartphone use, smartphone addiction has gained immense popularity and there has been a lot of research into smartphone addiction. Nonetheless, research examining the complex relationships between cyberloafing and smartphone addiction is still insufficient. Thus, the present study aims to establish the mediating role of fear…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Influence of Technology, Student Behavior
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Fatma Gizem Karaoglan Yilmaz; Ramazan Yilmaz; Sema Sulak – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Due to the distance education implemented with the COVID-19 pandemic, online synchronous education activities have started to be carried out using tools such as Zoom. In this process, students have experienced various problems and one of them is related to cyberloafing behaviors (CLB). The main purpose of this study was to examine the factors…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Educational Technology
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Chan, Yuen Fook; Narasuman, Suthagar; Selamat, Nurharani – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Since there is little research on the mediative effect of excessive mobile phone use on mobile addiction and academic behavior among university students, hence, the current study sought to study the relationship between these three variables. Data was collected from 435 university students through an online Google form survey sent through a…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, College Students, Addictive Behavior, Learner Engagement
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Talan, Tarik; Dogan, Yunus; Kalinkara, Yusuf – Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
The ubiquitous nature of smartphones has led to the emergence of addictive behaviors and new psychosocial disorders, almost overtaking the merits they provide. Within the relevant literature, the misuse of smartphones is purported to turn into a strong addiction, thus culminating in hopelessness and a reduction in life satisfaction. Another…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Academic Achievement
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Reysen, Rebekah; Reysen, Matthew; Reysen, Stephen – College Teaching, 2021
In the present study, we examined the relationship between academic entitlement, nomophobia, and cellular phone usage during class. Students reported the amount of time spent on their phones during class, frequency of checking phones during class, academic entitlement, and dimensions of nomophobia (cell phone addiction). Academic entitlement and…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Anxiety, College Students
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Gökçearslan, Sahin; Yildiz Durak, Hatice; Esiyok, Elif – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread quickly, e-learning became compulsory and disseminated throughout the world. During the pandemic, smartphones are frequently used to access e-learning content, but connecting to technological tools increased the risk of cyberloafing during e-courses. Currently, there are a limited number of studies on…
Descriptors: Students, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Self Management
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Mustafa Alperen Kursuncu – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
Triangling is one of the factors in a better understanding of self-differentiation. University students may develop behavioral addictions to cope with higher exposure to triangling and have lower resilience, resulting in poor self-differentiation. The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of smartphone addiction and resilience in…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Addictive Behavior, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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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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