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Ogachi, Fabio Maroma; Karega, Muchiri; Oteyo, John Samson – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study sought to establish the relationship between depression and pathological internet use (PIU) among university students in Kenya. The study used correlational design to establish the relationship between the variables. The target population was university students in Kenya. Convenience sampling was used to sample students from one public…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Gender Differences, Internet, Depression (Psychology)
Chacón-Cuberos, Ramón; Zurita-Ortega, Félix; Ubago-Jiménez, José Luis; González-Valero, Gabriel; Castro-Sánchez, Manuel – SAGE Open, 2019
This research study aims at contrasting a structural model of the associations between the alcohol consumption, tobacco dependence, and the problematic use of video games with motivational climate toward sport depending on the category of sports practiced in a sample of Physical Education university students. The sample consisted of 775 university…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, College Students, Drinking, Smoking
Jun, Sangmin – School Psychology International, 2019
The study aimed to examine the longitudinal causal relationships of depressive moods, problematic mobile phone use, and negative school outcomes based on the cognitive-behavioral model among Korean adolescents. The changes within each construct over time were also explored. A total of 1,610 valid responses from three-year longitudinal data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education, Telecommunications
Afacan, Ozlem; Ozbek, Neslihan – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate the social media addiction of high school students in terms of some variables such as age, class, type of school, gender and daily average internet usage period. Survey method was used in the study. "Social Media Addiction Scale" (SMAS) developed by Tutgun-Unal and "Personal Information…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Social Media, High School Students, Gender Differences
Kumcagiz, Hatice – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2019
The aim of the present study was to investigate quality of life (QL) as a predictor of smartphone addiction risk among Turkish adolescents. In line with this purpose, a total of 352 high school students (153 males and 199 females) completed the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory and a Smartphone Addiction Scale during the 2015-2016 academic year.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Risk, Addictive Behavior, Telecommunications
Ekinci, Nurullah Emir; Yalcin, Ilimdar; Ayhan, Cihan – World Journal of Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine the loneliness levels of students at the middle school level and their digital game addictions in terms of various variables. The study group consisted of 404 volunteer students in 5th-8th grade in Kutahya, Turkey. As data collection tools, "Digital Game Addiction Scale", developed by Lemmens et al.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Computer Games
Megan E. Patrick; Richard A. Miech; Lloyd D. Johnston; Patrick M. O’Malley – Institute for Social Research, 2024
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is an ongoing research program conducted at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research under a series of investigator-initiated research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse beginning in 1975. The integrated MTF study includes annual surveys of nationally-representative samples of 8th, 10th,…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse, Adults, Young Adults
Çolak, Merve; Yalçinkaya-Önder, Eylem – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
Nomophobia, a newborn concept that has become an important part of our lives in recent years due to effective use of smart phones in daily life, can be defined as "fear of staying away from smart phones". The aim of this study was to determine the nomophobia level of 8th grade students and to determine whether the nomophobia levels of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Adolescents, Telecommunications
Gözümi, Ali Ibrahim Can; Erkul, Raziye; Aksoy, Nur – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between pre-service preschool teachers' mobile-learning (m-learning) readiness, cyberloafing, nomophobia and smartphone addiction variables. The study was carried out using 306 pre-service preschool teachers undergoing education at state-run universities in two different cities in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Correlation, Preschool Teachers
Awofala, Adeneye O. A.; Olabiyi, Oladiran S.; Awofala, Awoyemi A.; Ojo, Omolabake T.; Okunuga, Racheal O.; Lawani, Abisola O. – Digital Education Review, 2020
Internationally, the proliferation of digital technologies in classrooms has produced digital distractions among digital natives in this 21st century. Thus, it is highly imperative to develop a suitable instrument for assessing and measuring digital distraction among higher education students to enable continuing research and practice. While…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Young Adults, STEM Education
Sevim-Cirak, Nese; Yildirim, Zahide – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
This phenomenological study investigates mining engineering students' game playing experiences for educational purposes and seeks to understand the essence of their experiences. In this study, three non-gamer and three-gamer mining engineering students were selected through a criterion sampling method, and then data were collected through in-depth…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Games, Educational Games, Mining
Kuyulu, Ihsan; Beltekin, Enes – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
The study was realized to examine the personality traits and smartphone addiction levels of high school students. The research group consists of totally 239 students, including 139 males and 100 females studying in Sports High School, Anatolian High School and Vocational High School in Sanliurfa during the "2019-2020" academic years.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personality Traits, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Kourgiantakis, Toula; Sewell, Karen M.; Lee, Eunjung; Adamson, Keith; McCormick, Megan; Kuehl, Dale; Bogo, Marion – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Social workers play a critical role in assessing and treating individuals and families with mental health and addiction concerns. Although social workers are key professionals in the mental health workforce, there are gaps in the training and education of mental health, addictions, and suicide, and many students are inadequately prepared for field…
Descriptors: Social Work, Mental Health, Addictive Behavior, Suicide
Dwane Glenn Martinson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored how enrolled freshman college students, ages 18-21, described their experiences and user behaviors while actively using personal communication devices (PCD) and social networking sites (SNS) to complete course-related activities in their introductory psychology class at a four-year public university. Twenty semi-structured…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Public Colleges, Student Experience, Handheld Devices
García-Umaña, Andrés; Tirado-Morueta, Ramón – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2018
The increase in the use of information technologies encompasses all educational and social issues, even changing intergenerational skills. It is considered that the most conditioned to this effect are adolescents and young people. This research is a literary review of various studies on addiction and Internet abuse and presents relevant results of…
Descriptors: Internet, Correlation, Statistical Analysis, Information Technology