Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 19, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191610439
Keywords
smartphone addiction; COVID-19; prevalence rates
Funding
- Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University [RG-1441-541]
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This study aimed to investigate the level of smartphone addiction and academic procrastination among university students in relation to the Corona pandemic. The results showed that 37.4% of the sample were addicted to smartphone use, while 7.7% had a high level of procrastination. The study also revealed a positive relationship between academic procrastination and smartphone addiction, and a negative relationship between smartphone addiction and quality of life.
Aims: The current study aims to identify the level and proportions of smartphone addiction, and academic procrastination among university students in the light of the Corona pandemic; identify the differences in smartphone addiction, academic procrastination, and quality of life according to gender and stage of study; and revealing the predictive ability of academic procrastination and quality of life for smartphone addiction. Methods: 556 male and female students from Saudi universities participated in the study, whose ages ranged from 18 to 52 years. Measures of academic procrastination and quality of life were used, in addition to the Italian scale of smartphone addiction, which was translated and checked for validity and reliability. Results: The results revealed that 37.4% of the sample were addicted to smartphone use, while 7.7% had a high level of procrastination, and 62.8% had an average level of procrastination. The results did not show statistically significant differences in smartphone addiction and quality of life according to gender and educational stage, while there were statistically significant differences in academic procrastination according to gender in favor of males, and according to stage of education in favor of undergraduate students. The results also revealed a statistically significant positive relationship between academic procrastination and smartphone addiction, and a statistically significant negative relationship between smartphone addiction and quality of life. A negative relationship between quality of life and academic procrastination was found. The results also revealed that addiction to smartphones could be predicted through academic procrastination and quality of life.
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