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Nwosu, Kingsley Chinaza; David, Elijah Tochukwu; Unachukwu, Gabriel Chidi – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2021
This study investigated student teachers' demographic variables and their internet addiction as possible predictors of their loneliness, given that the youth are increasingly becoming lonely resulting in mental health problems. The sample size comprised 600 (mean age = 19.69, SD = 3.17) student teachers. Findings showed that male undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Internet, Addictive Behavior
Sayi, Aysin Kaplan; Sahin, Filiz – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
Internet and games can have some adverse effects if used unconsciously. Especially for gifted students, internet and games can be risky and result in addiction due to their cognitive and social characteristics. Since the game and internet addiction conduce to social problems as well. In this vein, the purpose of the study is to examine the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Internet, Computer Games, Addictive Behavior
Torrijos-Fincias, Patricia; Serrate-González, Sara; Martín-Lucas, Judith; Muñoz-Rodríguez, José Manuel – Education Sciences, 2021
Life for today's adolescents generally involves spending a large part of their time in front of a screen, permanently connected to the internet. It is no surprise to learn that recent years have witnessed an increase in the number of studies on how adolescent identities are being affected by the phenomenon of hyperconnectivity. This article…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Milková, Eva; Kaliba, Martin; Ambrožová, Petra – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2022
The main purpose of the presented study is to explore the existing risk of Internet addiction for undergraduate students of Czech universities. The research was conducted as quantitative research; a CIAS-R questionnaire was applied. The data were collected in the years just before the Covid-19 pandemic (between October 2019 and March 2020). 3,366…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Risk, Undergraduate Students
Kula, Hale; Ayhan, Cihan; Kaçay, Zülbiye; Soyer, Fikret – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between smartphone addiction and life satisfaction of the students studying at faculty of sport sciences and to determine whether these parameters differ in terms of various variables. In the study, the Smartphone Addiction Scale developed by Kwon et al. (2013) and adapted to Turkish by…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Addictive Behavior, Life Satisfaction
Karaman, Mehmet Akif – Research on Education and Media, 2019
In recent years, social media use and its effects on mental health have been investigated many times. Mostly, studies focused less on the global health when addressing mental health. In this cluster analysis study, on a sample of 261 Turkish college students who were emerging adults, the associations between social media use and depression, sleep…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Depression (Psychology)
Akyüz, Halil Ibrahim – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2019
It is well known that the Internet provides rich resources for the education of teachers and students. Thus, the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between high school teachers' educational Internet usage self-efficacy belief and Internet addiction. More specifically, such aspects are examined according to age, gender, length…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Internet, Computer Use, Self Efficacy
Simsek, Ali; Elciyar, Kemal; Kizilhan, Taner – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2019
Considering that social media addiction is probably the most recent type of technology addiction, the present study was designed based on the six components suggested by Griffiths (2013). Toward the main purpose of the study, the "Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale" was adapted to social media addiction and translated into Turkish. After…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Social Media, High School Students, College Students
Kim, Sung Reul; Kim, Hye Young; Kim, Ji Young; Kim, Hyun Kyung – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
The aim of this study was to identify the association between type D personality and smoking cessation among high school students who had participated in a stop smoking program. From 27 high schools, we recruited 279 smoking students who had participated in a stop smoking program between May 29, 2015, and January 25, 2016. About 26.5% of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Smoking, Failure
Iskandar, Yulita Hanum P. – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2021
This research aims to analyse the factors and effect of compulsive social apps usage on technostress among students in private higher education institutions in Malaysia. The determinants examined are the locus of control, materialism, need for touch, social interaction anxiety and technostress. This study is conducted on students who are the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Psychological Characteristics, Influence of Technology
Alyssa S. Boyer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Nomophobia is "the fear of being unable to use one's mobile phone or being unreachable through one's mobile phone" (Yildirim & Correia, 2015, p. 1323). A sample of 161 professional teachers from accredited private schools in Kansas and Missouri was utilized to measure levels of nomophobia and differences based on teachers' gender,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Private Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Anxiety
Devin Borland Miles – ProQuest LLC, 2021
College-age students represent a significant portion of the U.S. population dealing with the ravages of our nation's growing addiction crisis. One challenge associated with substance use disorder that is often overlooked is the impact of addiction self-stigma on the lives of those that struggle with substance abuse issues. One way that colleges…
Descriptors: College Students, Addictive Behavior, Substance Abuse, Negative Attitudes
Juan Li; Jingyao Wang; Bowen Xiao; Yan Li; Hui Li – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": The Problematic Media Use Measure (PMUM) assesses young children's excessive or problematic media use. The current study aims to translate the original English version of PMUM into a Chinese version and validate it with Chinese preschoolers (ages 3 to 6). The instrument was translated, back-translated, pretested, and…
Descriptors: Translation, Test Validity, Chinese, Measures (Individuals)
Hayes, Ben – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
This paper reviews the rapidly developing field of epigenetics, providing an accessible explanation of the key ideas and some illustrative examples of work in the field. Although very much a biological discipline the implications of the developing knowledge in this area are very significant for educational psychologists and this paper aims to…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Genetics, Heredity, Biology
Aksoy, Mehmet Emin – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this study was to determine the causes of social media addiction of individuals, who define themselves as social media addicts, in a clearer and more concrete way. In order to achieve this aim, participants have been tested with an addiction test, and 25 university students who perceive themselves as social media addicts were selected…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Etiology