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Direct linkNoor-i-Kiran Naeem; Zil-e-Fatima Naeem; Asfand Yar Anwar – Discover Education, 2024
This study aimed to determine the trends of smartphone usage and behaviours associated with its use among undergraduate medical students at ABWA Medical College, Pakistan. Conducted from July to December 2023, this cross-sectional survey involved 270 undergraduate medical students, with 264 participants responding, resulting in a 97.7% response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Handheld Devices
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
Omer Faruk Cantekin; Umit Ozen – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
This study aims to examine the relationships between family climate, emotional authenticity, and technology addiction among university students. The research was conducted with 1,012 university students, based on a descriptive-relational survey model. Data were collected using family climate, emotional authenticity, and technology addiction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Addictive Behavior, Family Environment
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
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
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
Nurudeen, Mohammed; Abdul-Samad, Siddique; Owusu-Oware, Emmanuel; Koi-Akrofi, Godfred Yaw; Tanye, Hannah Ayaba – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
With the advent of smartphones and fourth generation mobile technologies, the effect of social media on society has stirred up some debate and researchers across various disciplines have drawn different conclusions. Social media provides university students with a convenient platform to create and share educational content. However, social media…
Descriptors: Social Media, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Prediction
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
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
Wang, Qian; Liu, Yujie; Wang, Baohong; An, Yang; Wang, Haolin; Zhang, Yaya; Mati, Komi – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Poor subjective sleep quality (SSQ) and problematic Internet use (PIU) were common among college students in China, but their prevalence and interconnections were understudied. Participants: 1040 college students (60.0% females), ranging in age from 16 to 26 (mean = 20.32; SD = 1.43). Methods: Participants completed a survey assessing…
Descriptors: Internet, Sleep, Behavior Problems, Addictive Behavior
Serdar, Emrah; Demirel, Mehmet; Harmandar Demirel, Duygu – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
This study aimed to describe the relationships between leisure boredom, leisure satisfaction, and smartphone addictions among university students. The study sample consisted of 258 participants, 143 males and 115 females, studying at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa Faculty of Sports Sciences. The participants were selected using the purposeful…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psychological Patterns, Gender Differences, Leisure Time
Sana Mairaj Bugti; Firdous Bugti; Pir Suhail Ahmed Sarhandi – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2023
Smartphone is the most wanted gadget of this era and smartphone addiction is the association with its use. This research aims to find the role of craving, social relationships, and overuse of smartphone as determinants of smartphone addiction and its influence on students' academic performance. This study uses purposive sampling (nonprobability)…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior, Academic Achievement
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
