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The relationship between cell phone use, academic performance, anxiety, and Satisfaction with Life in college students
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“Participants estimated their average daily smartphone usage (i.e., subjective frequency of usage) over the previous week (in hours and minutes), with a reminder that usage included a variety of functions (Lepp et al., 2014).”
BackgroundTurgeman, L., Hefner, I., Bazon, M., Yehoshua, O., & Weinstein, A. (2020) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph17041262 · Cited by 46
“The easy access and availability of the Internet enables users to send messages, play games, download information, and interact on social networkss; when these are temporarily unavailable, it may exacerbate the experience of boredom and the need for entertainment [41].”
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Evaluation of the factor structure of the Chinese version of the nomophobia questionnaire
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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction
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“Most of the previous literature on smartphone and academic performance exploits self-reported survey data about hours and/or minutes of use per day (e.g., Chen & Ji, 2015; Lepp et al., 2014).”
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Developmental Assets and Academic Performance of Adolescents in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
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“For example, excessive smartphone use has been found to predict anxiety (Lepp et al. 2014).”
BackgroundSun, C., Sun, B., Lin, Y., & Zhou, H. (2022) · Psychology Research and Behavior Management · doi:10.2147/prbm.s345650 · Cited by 51
“Problematic phone use would not only have many adverse effects on college students’ physical and psychological health, such as sleep quality and depression,(3,4) but also have a negative impact on their life and study (eg, academic performance and interpersonal relationships).(5,6) Thus, it is important to ascertain t…”
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A meta-analysis of the impact of technology related factors on students’ academic performance
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“To conduct a comprehensive and systematic search, the following keywords were used: “smartphone addiction” OR “problematic smartphone use” OR “excessive smartphone use,” “social media addiction” OR “problematic social media use” OR “excessive social media use,” “videogame addiction” OR “problematic videogame use” OR “…”
InfluentialLaptop or Bust: How Lack of Technology Affects Student Achievement
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“Studies that looked at how device use affects student outcomes in large lecture settings have found that students who used devices during class had a lower GPA (Carter et al., 2017; Lepp et al., 2014; Patterson & Patterson, 2017), and reported lower understanding of course materials (Fried, 2008).”
BackgroundThe Impact of Cell Phone Use on the Intensity and Liking of a Bout of Treadmill Exercise
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“, causing psychological distress [2], depression [44, 40], anxiety [18, 25], sleep disorders [18, 40], and reduced satisfaction with life [25].”
BackgroundThe Relationship Between Mobile Phone Use, Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Achievement
Döş, B. (2014) · European Journal of Educational Research · doi:10.12973/eu-jer.3.4.192 · Cited by 42
“The MPUsers divided into three groups (high frequency, normal and lower users) according to the literature (Lepp et al., 2014).”
BackgroundInfluentialHomo prostheticus? Intercorporeality and the emerging adult-smartphone assemblage
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lepp, A., Barkley, J. E., & Karpinski, A. C.
- Affiliations
- Kent State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lepp, Andrew
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 31
- Pages
- 343-350
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1998146685
- Cited by
- 990
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 56 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 87 · 2023: 98 · 2022: 94 · 2021: 126 · 2020: 114 · 2019: 91 · 2018: 94 · 2017: 58 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 43 · 2014: 14
- FWCI
- 116.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Keywords
- mobile phone use, text messaging, academic performance, anxiety, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, university students, GPA, mental health, mediation
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