The Relationship Between Time Management, Self Regulation, and Smartphone Addiction

Abstract

This study aims to identify the relationship between self-regulation, time management and smartphone addiction on Public Senior High School students in North Surakarta. The data were collected from Public Senior High School 1, 5, and 8 Surakarta with samples by 283 students. The data collection technique was simple random sampling by developing three scales, i.e., self-regulation skill, time management scale, and smartphone addiction scale. This study applied two kinds of data analysis, which were descriptive analysis and regression analysis. The results of this study showed a negative relationship between self-regulation, time management, and smartphone addiction, either partially or entirely by 27.7%. The results also showed that the higher the student’s self-regulation and time management levels, the lower the level of student’s smartphone addiction.

Self-regulation and tendency of smartphone addiction among college students

“…Conversely, a person with low selfregulation usually uses an excessive smartphone and does not use the smartphone nicely. He could not control his desires or not even limit himself in using a smartphone (Ara Choi, 2021;Azizah, 2021), thus causing the risk of behaviour towards a higher smartphone addiction (Van Deursen et al, 2015). The correlation test results also showed a significant negative relationship between the tendency of smartphone addiction and self-regulation (r = -0.323; p<0.05), thus strengthening the variable relationship in this study.…”

“…Self-regulation is one of the abilities of a person who can be a fortress to use a smartphone in controlled and good ways (Azizah, 2021). Self-regulation has an essential relationship in a person related to smartphone addiction (Gökc ¸earslan et al, 2016).…”