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Junfeng Liu – Health Education Research, 2024
The popularity of social networks turns them into a legal method for promoting a healthy lifestyle, which benefits not only people but also different countries' governments. This research paper aimed to examine the Keep fitness app integrated into WeChat, Weibo and QQ as regards long-term improvements in health-related behaviors (physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Social Media, Physical Fitness
Shutao Wang; Demei Zhang – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
This study is to determine how learning maladaptation and teacher criticism affect the relationship between pathological Internet use and academic performance. Results indicated that pathological Internet use could negatively predict students' academic performance. Learning maladaptation had a mediating effect on the relations between pathological…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Performance
Judith L. Frazier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has highlighted the risk of non-users among college students using illegal prescription stimulants due to misinformation and incorrect assumptions. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perspectives of college students who do not use stimulants on perceived risks, social…
Descriptors: College Students, Drug Use, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Zeynep Simsir-Gokalp; Muhammet Ibrahim Akyurek – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
Failure to exercise self-control is one of the leading causes of substance and behavioral addictions. Problematic social media usage (PSMU), a type of behavioral addiction, has become an increasingly serious problem with a significant impact on the lives of individuals of all generations. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the underlying…
Descriptors: Self Control, Mass Media Use, Addictive Behavior, Correlation
Semih Cayak; Ozge Erduran-Tekin – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between primary school students' school happiness and digital game addictions. The study group of this research, which was designed in the relational survey model, consists of 204 fourth-grade primary school students studying in the Pendik district of Istanbul. In the research, the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Psychological Patterns, Addictive Behavior, Video Games
Yönem Tüccaroglu; Sebnem Güldal Kan – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2025
The early childhood period, often referred to as the "magical years of life" by many scientists, is when development occurs most rapidly after the prenatal stage. This rapid development necessitates heightened attention to ensure that children spend their time in ways that promote healthy growth. It is frequently observed that…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Information Technology, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Shaimaa Almutairi; Aisha Alazemi – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: This research aims to identify the relationship between digital intelligence and video game addiction among Middle school students, to identify gender differences in digital intelligence, and to reveal the digital intelligence skills that contribute most to predicting video game addiction. Materials/methods: The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10
Merve Nur Durmus; Mustafa Metin; Neslihan Durmus – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
This research was carried out to determine the opinions of science teacher candidates about digital game addiction. For this reason, the phenomenology method which one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The sample of this study consists of 5 science teacher candidates studying at different universities in the 2022-2023 academic year.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Student Attitudes, Video Games
Choi, Sunah; Jang, Daeyeon; Lee, Yujin – Youth & Society, 2023
Smartphone dependency (SD) has been linked to decreased happiness; however, research has not yet explored potential mediating mechanisms such as social class awareness (SCA) in this relationship. This study examined the association between SD and happiness among middle school students and the mediating effect of SCA in this relationship. Data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior
Sivrikaya, Tugba; Çetin, Müzeyyen Eldeniz – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2023
This study aims to examine the digital game addiction levels of adolescent mainstreaming students in terms of various variables. 157 adolescent mainstreaming students between the ages of 12-18 who attend secondary school, Anatolian High School, Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, and Vocational Education Center in Düzce province…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Video Games, Addictive Behavior, High School Students
Ospankulov, Yernar; Nurgaliyeva, Saniya; Zhumabayeva, Aziya; Zhunusbekova, Aziza; Tolegenuly, Nurzhan; Kozhamkulova, Nazgul; Zhalel, Ali – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
This study aims to determine the relationship between primary school students' technology addiction levels and their participation in sports. For this purpose, in this study, technology addiction and sports participation levels of students studying in different primary schools in Almaty were examined according to their demographic characteristics.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Participation, Athletics, Influence of Technology
Demir, Fatima Betül; Öteles, Ülkü Ulukaya; Koçoglu, Erol – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
The concepts of digital obesity and digital literacy, which are interconnected in influencing human beings, can find their place in all areas of life with the virtualized life industry in the globalizing world. Having these competencies, awareness can be explained by the orientation process between these concepts and the individual. In this…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
McGrath, Andrea M.; DeDiego, Amanda C. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2023
Counselor trainees in recovery from substance use often have a foundational recovery identity; they also develop a professional counselor identity through their training. This study utilized narrative inquiry to explore the integration of professional identity and recovery identity. Resonant threads and narrative tensions emerged from the storied…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counselors, Addictive Behavior, Drug Addiction
Caratiquit, Kevin D.; Caratiquit, Lovely Jean C. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
Using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling with WarpPLS, this study examines the indirect effect of the relationship between learners' social media addiction and academic achievement in distance learning as mediated by academic procrastination. The study participants were 223 Filipino students at a secondary school in Cagayan,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Academic Achievement, Distance Education
Omoyemiju, Michael Adeniyi; Omotosho, Idowu Mujidat – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2023
The research examined the spread of internet addiction among tertiary institution students in Osun State and examine the connection between social anxiety and internet addiction. The research used descriptive survey research methodology. A sample of 1,430 students were picked to be involved in the research using multistage sampling methodology.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Internet, Addictive Behavior

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