Locus of control and cell phone use: Implications for sleep quality, academic performance, and subjective well-being

Understanding Patterns for Smartphone Addiction: Age, Sleep Duration, Social Network Use and Fear of Missing Out

“…spending more time on smartphones than planned (Caplan & High, 2006), are considered to be the reason for this situation. Examples of problems caused by an uncontrollable urge for smartphone use include (a) the phenomenon of "texting while driving", which has been associated with many traffic accidents and risks (Cazzulino, Burke, Muller, Arbogast, & Upperman, 2014;Haigney & Westerman, 2001;McEvoy et al, 2005;Thompson, Baldock, Mathias, & Wundersitz, 2013), (b) manual, spinal and cervical health problems (Shan et al, 2013;Xie, Szeto, Dai, & Madeleine, 2016), (c) psychological stress and depression (Elhai, Dvorak, Levine, & Hall, 2017;Thomée, Härenstam, & Hagberg, 2011), (d) poor sleep quality (Li, Lepp, & Barkley, 2015;Soni, Upadhyay, & Jain, 2017), and (e) low academic performance (Alosaimi, Alyahya, Alshahwan, Al Mahyijari, & Shaik, 2016;Junco & Cotton, 2012;Lepp, Barkley, & Karpinski, 2015;. In particular, adolescents and young adults spend a great portion of their day using their smartphones (Kumcagiz & Gunduz, 2016) as an intense and passionate means of communicating with their friends; transferring their experiences as well as following the "daily progress" of others in social media posts.…”

The Relationship between a Night Usage of Mobile Phone and Sleep Habit and the Circadian Typology of Japanese Students Aged 18 - 30 yrs

“…Such psychological pressure for using smartphone for the communication with their colleagues might become strong zeitgeber to delay the phase of their circadian clock. Li et al (2015) also reported that usage of cell phones at bed time can cause lower quality of sleep of undergraduate students. It was recommended for undergraduate students to avoid the usage of mobile (smart) phones at bed time and during sleep for keeping their sleep health.…”

“…1) Mobile phone usage was reported to reduce academic performance (Li et al, 2015). Li et al (2015) reported that under graduate students (n = 516) participated in the study by competing the validated surveys assessing their cell phone use, locus of control, sleep quality, academic performance, and reduced subjective well-being. This study suggested that using the cell phone at bed time was negatively related to sleep quality and that using the cell phone in class and while studying was negatively related to academic performance.…”

“…This study suggested that using the cell phone at bed time was negatively related to sleep quality and that using the cell phone in class and while studying was negatively related to academic performance. 2) Poor sleep quality (Fossum et al, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Exelmans & Van den Bulk, 2016). Fossum et al (2014) investigated whether the use of a television, computer, gaming console, tablet, mobile phone, or audio player in bed before going to sleep was associated with insomnia, daytime sleepiness, morningness, or chronotype on 532 students aged 18 -39.…”

Effect of Online Social Networking Sites Usage on Academic Performance of University Students in Uganda

“…Students nowadays spend much time on social networks [23]For example, it has been observed that students in Serbia spend a daily average of 2.76 hours on Facebook [4]while students in Ghana spend over eight hours daily on WhatsApp Messenger [24]On the use of technology, often students fail to regulate themselves to rightly balance between academic and non-academic usage [25][26][27][15] in a study on college student technology use and academic performance found that 75 percent of technology use among students is for non-academic but rather for leisure purposes.…”