Academic Procrastination and Social Anxiety as Predictive Variables Internet Addiction of Adolescents

Abstract

This study is aimed to examine the relationship between Internet addiction and academic procrastination and social anxiety. The study group of this research is 599 high school students, 239 (39.9%) female, and 360 (60.1%) male. It is for the Young Internet Addiction Scale, the Academic Procrastination Scale, and the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents. The data were analyzed by Pearson Correlation Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis techniques. According to the findings of the study, positive correlation between internet addiction and academic procrastination and social anxiety shows a significant relationship. In other findings of the study, it was found that academic procrastination and social anxiety predicted internet addiction. According to the findings, the most powerful predictor variable was academic procrastination. Expanding the number of samples in future researches, reaching students from the region and sociocultural level ensures that the findings can be generalized, and more reliable results are obtained.

The Predictive Ability of Social Anxiety within Internet Addiction among University Students

“…There are also nonexistence of statistically significant differences at the Internet addiction level among the Hashemite university students, due to gender and it appears from the result that students who have the desire to be addicted to the Internet and will use the Internet for long hours, regardless of their social type or gender will find the necessary time to meet their full needs satisfied by the Internet use. The current findings agree with the study results of Kürşad et al (2020); Mustafa et al (2018); Tras and Gökçen (2020) where its results indicated nonexistence of differences in the social anxiety, due to gender.…”

“…The results of Seong et al (2005) study indicated a relationship between social anxiety and the number of hours using Internet but indicated a nonexistence of differences between males and females in the level of social anxiety, and that variables of sex, utilization period, and age group were epidemics of social anxiety. The study results of Shand et al (2010); Tras and Gökçen (2020) indicated that number of hours spent using the Internet deepens level of social anxiety among individuals.…”

“…The researchers' interest in education and psychology recently; and in light of the COVID-19 spread has focused on examining an important variable, such as social anxiety as a variable that has an impact on people's lives, as well as people focus on using the Internet to extract information and track news, which has affected individuals in general and the student class in particular, especially since learning has become electronic. Therefore, many researchers have examined the social anxiety topic from different respects, and here are some of the studies that addressed the social anxiety among the university students Buckner and Schmidt (2009); Carleton, Collimore, and Asmundson (2010); Higa, Phillips, Chorpita, and Daleiden (2008); Mustafa, Özteke, and Ahin (2018); Shand, Degenhardt, Nelson, and Mattick (2010) and Kürşad et al (2020) while other researchers have gone on to study the social anxiety among school students, such as Alshehri, Azahrani, and Alotaibi (2015); Tras and Gökçen (2020) and Seong, Hwang, and Ja (2005).…”

“…The study of Dell'Osso et al (2003) examined the social anxiety disorder, while the study of Loudin, Loukas, and Robinson (2003) addressed the role of empathy and social anxiety on the relational violence, and the study of Onwuegbuzie (2004) investigated the relationship between social anxiety and the academic procrastination. The study of Tras and Gökçen (2020) examined the relationship between academic procrastination and social anxiety, and Internet use, while the study of Mustafa et al (2018) addressed the gender differences in social relationships and the Internet addiction.…”

Mediation of Problematic Use in the Relationship Between Types of Internet Use and Subjective Well-Being in Schoolchildren

“…In contrast, it is also possible to find negative associations between the use of digital technologies and personal well-being or mixed associations ( Odgers, 2016 ; Przybylski and Weinstein, 2017 ; Orben and Przybylski, 2019 ; Young et al, 2020 ). Thus, there is literature that indicates that the use of the Internet by schoolchildren is often associated with risks related to loneliness ( Song et al, 2014 ; Ho et al, 2017 ), social anxiety ( Buyukbayraktar, 2020 ; Traş and Gökçen, 2020 ), cyberbullying ( Devine and Lloyd, 2012 ; Casas et al, 2013 ; Viner et al, 2019 ; Craig et al, 2020 ; Garaigordobil et al, 2020 ), unsafe sexual behaviors ( McBride, 2011 ; Vannucci et al, 2020 ), and psychological pathologies ( Borzekowski, 2006 ; McBride, 2011 ). Other works suggest that a high use of social networks and online games are related to low subjective well-being ( Devine and Lloyd, 2012 ) or addictive behaviors ( García-Oliva et al, 2017 ; Marengo et al, 2020 ).…”