Smartphone Addiction and Academic Procrastination: A Mediation Model

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Abstract

To understand the relationship and mechanism between smartphone addiction and academic procrastination, this study constructs a mediation model to examine the impact of college students' smartphone addiction and academic self-efficacy on their academic procrastination and the mediation effect of academic self-efficacy. A total of 482 students participated in this study and were surveyed using the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version, the College Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and the Tuckman's Academic Procrastination Scale. The results indicated that: (1) smartphone addiction was positively related to academic procrastination while negatively related to academic self-efficacy; (2) smartphone addiction had a direct predictive effect on students’ academic procrastination and an indirect predictive effect via academic self-efficacy, after controlling for age, gender and grade.

Authors

• Ling Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland

• Haiyin Gao, Fu Jen Catholic University

• Yanhua Xu, College of Resources, Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University