Smartphone addiction, cyberloafing, stress and social support among university students: A path analysis
By Şahin Gökçearslan, Çelebi Uluyol, Sami Sahin. Children and youth services review, 2018
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between smartphone addiction, cyberloafing, stress and social support. The research data were collected from 885 undergraduate students studying at a public university in Turkey using an online questionnaire. The relationship between the variables was tested by path analysis. The results of the research showed that class level, family income and place of residence had no significant effect on smartphone addiction, cyberloafing, stress and perceived social support. Smartphone addiction, stress and perceived social support differed significantly by gender. Stress has significant effect on cyberloafing and smartphone addiction, and cyberloafing has significant effect on smartphone addiction. Social support has a small but significant effect on cyberloafing, but it has no significant effect on stress. The results of the research are discussed with regard to higher education students and future studies.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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- Psychological Distress, Emotion Dysregulation, and Coping Behaviour: a Theoretical Perspective of Problematic Smartphone Use (2020, background): “First, most studies on problematic smartphone use employ student samples (Aker et al. 2017; Boumosleh and Jaalouk 2017; Demirci et al. 2015; Elhai and Contractor 2018; Elhai et al. 2018a, b; Darcin et al. 2016; Gökçearslan et al. 2018), and research on diverse samples is needed.”