Social Media Addiction and Time Management Skills of University Students in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Ezeonwumelu, Victor Ugochukwu; Nwikpo, Mary Nneka; Okoro, Cornelius C.; Ekanem, Eyaema Idara

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“…Mental health issues continue to necessitate genuine concerns from around the world with mental health specialists unrelenting in their efforts to identify linkages between cyber bullying and mental health. Skilbred-Fjeld [12,13], Endresen and Mossig [14] found that cyber bullying could lead to depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and self-harm. They, Skilbred-Fjeld et al [14] also claimed that cyber victims and cyber-bully victims were found to be vulnerable to mood problems in addition to antisocial behaviour tendencies [14,2].…”

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Students’ and Teachers’ Perception of Cyberbullying and Its Influence on the Academic Grit of Senior Secondary School Students in Onitsha South LGA, Anambra State

Ugochukwu¹,

Ijeoma²,

Nwikpo³

et al. 2022

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Aims: This study examined the perception of students and teachers on cyber-bullying and the influence of cyber bullying on students’ academic grit. Design: A mixed method research design was adopted for the study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in Onitsha South Local Government Area, Anambra State, Nigeria. The research was conducted between 2021 and early 2022. Methodology: A sample of 280 senior secondary school students and 120 teachers from secondary schools students were selected using purposive and simple random sampling respectively. Three instruments titled; Students Cyberbullying Awareness Questionnaire (SCAQ); Teachers’ Perception of Cyberbullying Questionnaire (TPCQ); School Cyberbullying Eradication Questionnaire (SCEQ), were developed by the researchers to elicit responses from the respondents (students and teachers), while the School Grit Scale developed by Duckworth and Quinn (2009) was also adapted to measure students’ academic grit. Reliability of the instrument was computed using the Cronbach Alpha technique. Questionnaires were distributed to 50 students and 30 teachers outside the study area. Reliability coefficient scores of 0.81, 0.79, 0.78, and 0.83 were realized for the SCAQ, TPCQ, SCEQ and the adapted version of the Short Grit Scale, respectively. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation, and dependent t-test statistics. Results: It was found among others that students and teachers are aware of the incidence of cyberbullying in our schools. Also, the researchers found that cyberbullying had significant influence on academic grit of students.

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Students’ and Teachers’ Perception of Cyberbullying and Its Influence on the Academic Grit of Senior Secondary School Students in Onitsha South LGA, Anambra State

Ugochukwu¹,

Ijeoma²,

Nwikpo³

et al. 2022

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Dysfunctional use of social networks: can we talk about addiction?

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The article presents materials from Russian and foreign literature indicating the similarity between certain types of behavior in social networks and addictive behavior, as well as demonstrating the negative consequences of problematic use of social networks for the physical, mental and social well-being of users. Biological, personal and social factors predisposing to problematic use of social networks are considered. The data on the comorbidity of social media addiction with other types of addiction behavior and mental disorders, such as technological, eating, consumer addiction, depression, mania, anxiety disorder, episodes of psychotic-like experiences are presented.

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Socioemotional Correlates of Academic Grit among University Undergraduates in Abia State, Nigeria

Ezeonwumelu,

Ugochukwu,

Okoro

2024

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This study investigated the socioemotional correlates of academic grit among undergraduate students in public universities in Abia State. The study adopted a correlation design. Three research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The population of the study comprised all the 53, 479 undergraduate students registered for the 2022/2023 academic session. A sample size of 540 was selected for the study using multi- stage sampling technique. Instruments used to collect data were adapted versions of the standardised Coleman’s Emotional Intelligence Scale; General Self-efficacy Scale; Cohen’s Interpersonal Support Evaluation Inventory; and Duckworth’s Short Grit Scale. The reliability of the instruments was calculated using the Cronbach Alpha technique. The computation yielded coefficients of 0.92, 0.88, 0.79 and 0.81 for the Emotional Intelligence Scale, General Self-Efficacy Scale, Social Support Scale and Short Grit Scale, respectively. Face and content validation was done by 3 experts, 2 from the Department of Psychology and 1 from the Department of Psychological Foundations, University of Uyo. Data collected were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, SPSS:27. The Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to answer the research questions while simple linear regression was used to test the hypotheses. Findings revealed the following; that some of the socioemotional variables had significant associations with academic grit of the respondents. Thus, emotional intelligence had a strong association B = 0.91 (p < 0.05) with academic grit. Self-efficacy also predicted academic grit B = 0.83 (p < 0.05). However, social support had no significant association with academic grit B = -0.08 (p < 0.05), among university undergraduates in Abia State. Based on the findings, recommendations were made that intervention programmes should be designed to improve the mental well-being of students and peer mentorship programmes should be encouraged at the tertiary level of education to help instill grit among undergraduate students.

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Social Media Addiction and Time Management Skills of University Students in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

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Students’ and Teachers’ Perception of Cyberbullying and Its Influence on the Academic Grit of Senior Secondary School Students in Onitsha South LGA, Anambra State

Students’ and Teachers’ Perception of Cyberbullying and Its Influence on the Academic Grit of Senior Secondary School Students in Onitsha South LGA, Anambra State

Dysfunctional use of social networks: can we talk about addiction?

Socioemotional Correlates of Academic Grit among University Undergraduates in Abia State, Nigeria

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