Smartphone distraction and academic anxiety: the mediating role of academic procrastination and the moderating role of time management disposition

Jin, Y, Zhou, W, Zhang, Y, Yang, Z and Hussain, Z ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7678-6615, 2024. Smartphone distraction and academic anxiety: the mediating role of academic procrastination and the moderating role of time management disposition. Behavioral Sciences, 14 (9): 820. ISSN 2076-328X

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Abstract

The present study investigated the relationship between smartphone distraction, academic procrastination, academic anxiety, and time management disposition. A total of 474 college students were recruited to complete a survey comprising measures of smartphone distraction, academic procrastination, academic anxiety, and time management disposition. The hypothesised moderated mediation model was tested using Model 4 and Model 15 of the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Results showed that smartphone distraction was positively and significantly correlated with academic anxiety (r = 0.40, p < 0.001) and academic procrastination (r = 0.42, p < 0.001). Academic procrastination mediated the relationship between smartphone distraction and academic anxiety. Time management disposition moderated the paths from academic procrastination and smartphone distraction to academic anxiety. The present study suggests that smartphone distraction could predict increased levels of academic procrastination, which could then lead to higher academic anxiety. However, the predicting effects in this mediation model could fluctuate across individuals with different time management dispositions. Further studies are needed to explore the mechanism of smartphone distraction using different methods.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Behavioral Sciences
Creators:	Jin, Y., Zhou, W., Zhang, Y., Yang, Z. and Hussain, Z.
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Date:	September 2024
Volume:	14
Number:	9
ISSN:	2076-328X
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/bs14090820 DOI 2221901 Other
Rights:	© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	23 Sep 2024 13:11
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2024 13:11
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52279

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