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Langley-Turnbaugh, S. J.; Neikirk, M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
In the fall of 2015, Northern Kentucky University began a sustained, multidimensional effort to explore our region's devastating heroin epidemic. The goal was to engage NKU's students, faculty, and staff with the community through public dialogue, experiential learning, and research. Taken together, our engagements would contribute to public…
Descriptors: Colleges, College Students, College Faculty, Narcotics
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Nikolopoulou, Kleopatra; Gialamas, Vasilis – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
This paper regards a study aiming to investigate secondary school pupils' attitudes regarding mobile phone possible dependence. A 26-item questionnaire was administered to 504 pupils aged 12-18 years old, in Greece. Around half of the sample reported perceptions linked to the social motivational aspect of the mobile phones (peer dependence), phone…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Balmford, James; Borland, Ron – Health Education Research, 2017
Smokers are exposed to advice about quitting from numerous sources. Within the 2013 ITC 4-Country Survey, 1211 Australian smokers or recent ex-smokers rated the perceived importance of eight sources of advice, categorized into evidence-based, non evidence-based, personal experience and vicarious experience (two items each), and also rated their…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Foreign Countries, Intention
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Osman, Amira; Thrasher, James F.; Yong, Hua-Hie; Arillo-Santillán, Edna; Hammond, David – Health Education Research, 2017
Health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs that use strong fear appeals may evoke defensive responses including acts of disparaging the warnings. Whether warning disparagement undermines HWL effectiveness remains unclear. We assessed correlates of one type of HWL disparagement and its association with subsequent cessation attempts.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Promotion, Longitudinal Studies, Adults
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Borland, Ron; Li, Lin; Balmford, James – Health Education Research, 2017
Commitments to goals are theorized to affect behavior change outcomes, but competing theories argue for hard to achieve goals and strategic sub-goals as optimum strategies for success. This study aimed to explore whether the nature of the goal affects smoking cessation outcomes. A total of 1043 participants in a randomized controlled trial of…
Descriptors: Smoking, Randomized Controlled Trials, Correlation, Addictive Behavior
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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