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Engin Kutluay; Feride Karaca – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
An exploratory sequential mixed-method study is designed to develop and test a comprehensive model explaining the relationships between factors associated with smartphone addiction and high school students' academic achievement. Involving two main phases of qualitative and quantitative, focus group discussions with high school students and…
Descriptors: Models, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Addictive Behavior
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Mehmet Emin Turan; Firdevs Adam; Alican Kaya; Murat Yildirim – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Ostracism and dark triad personality traits have been found to be linked with social media addiction. Despite the well-established relationship between the dark triad (i.e., narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and social media addiction, there is limited research on their mediating effect. In the present study, we tested a hypothetical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Social Media, Personality Problems
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Weiyi Sun; Miao Chao – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The use of social media among students has gained significant attention due to its potential impact on academic performance, characterized by both positive and negative effects. However, limited research exists regarding the different types of excessive social media use and their influence on academic performance. In this innovative study, we aim…
Descriptors: Social Media, Mass Media Use, Academic Achievement, Time Management
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Nguyen, Vinh T. – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of users about using digital detox applications and to display relationships among personality traits and technology-related variables. This study was designed using survey approach and employed Generalized Structured Component Analysis (GSCA). As such, 11 hypotheses were constructed and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Personality Traits, Computer Oriented Programs, Behavior
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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
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Parmaksiz, Izzet – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The purpose of the study was to examine whether personality traits had a mediator role on the relationship between university students' digital addiction behaviour and academic self-efficacy. The study sample consisted of 1348 students (876 females and 472 males) who were chosen through random sampling from university students who from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy
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Saritepeci, Mustafa – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Cyberloafing is one of the phenomena that adversely affects the efficiency and productivity in learning and teaching activities in educational settings. Increased ICT (information and "communication technology") access status in educational environments and personal mobile devices lead to a wide range of cyberloafing behaviors of…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, High School Students, Attention Control, Metacognition