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Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors

The 21(st)-century problem of Internet addiction is increasing globally, but especially among university students. Not surprisingly, then, problematic Internet use is associated with university students’ academic procrastination. Because studies are scarce in Mexico and Spain has one of the highest...

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Autores principales: Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada, Romero-Rodríguez, José-María, García-González, Abel, Ramírez-Montoya, María-Soledad
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32442238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233655
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author Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada
Romero-Rodríguez, José-María
García-González, Abel
Ramírez-Montoya, María-Soledad
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Romero-Rodríguez, José-María
García-González, Abel
Ramírez-Montoya, María-Soledad
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description The 21(st)-century problem of Internet addiction is increasing globally, but especially among university students. Not surprisingly, then, problematic Internet use is associated with university students’ academic procrastination. Because studies are scarce in Mexico and Spain has one of the highest rates of Internet addiction in Europe, this paper (i) analyzed the presence and degree of Internet addiction among university students in Mexico and Spain, (ii) determined potential sociodemographic factors influencing Internet addiction, and (iii) established the type of correlation between Internet addiction and academic procrastination. The cross-sectional study design used an online questionnaire to measure problematic Internet use and academic procrastination through convenience sampling at one university in Mexico and one in Spain. The questionnaire contained three sections: participants’ sociodemographic data, the Internet Addiction Test, and the Academic Procrastination Scale. The final sample comprised 758 university students, 387 from Mexico, and 371 from Spain, aged from 18 to 35 (M = 20.08, SD = 3.16). Results revealed similar prevalence rates of problematic and daily Internet use for leisure, potentially influencing Internet addiction in all three models (i.e., Mexico, Spain, and Total). Additionally, significant positive correlation was revealed between problematic Internet use and academic procrastination (p < .001). Finally, findings showed relevant data on Internet addiction’s prevalence in Mexican and Spanish university contexts, along with its influential sociodemographic factors.
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spelling pubmed-72441102020-06-03 Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors Aznar-Díaz, Inmaculada Romero-Rodríguez, José-María García-González, Abel Ramírez-Montoya, María-Soledad PLoS One Research Article The 21(st)-century problem of Internet addiction is increasing globally, but especially among university students. Not surprisingly, then, problematic Internet use is associated with university students’ academic procrastination. Because studies are scarce in Mexico and Spain has one of the highest rates of Internet addiction in Europe, this paper (i) analyzed the presence and degree of Internet addiction among university students in Mexico and Spain, (ii) determined potential sociodemographic factors influencing Internet addiction, and (iii) established the type of correlation between Internet addiction and academic procrastination. The cross-sectional study design used an online questionnaire to measure problematic Internet use and academic procrastination through convenience sampling at one university in Mexico and one in Spain. The questionnaire contained three sections: participants’ sociodemographic data, the Internet Addiction Test, and the Academic Procrastination Scale. The final sample comprised 758 university students, 387 from Mexico, and 371 from Spain, aged from 18 to 35 (M = 20.08, SD = 3.16). Results revealed similar prevalence rates of problematic and daily Internet use for leisure, potentially influencing Internet addiction in all three models (i.e., Mexico, Spain, and Total). Additionally, significant positive correlation was revealed between problematic Internet use and academic procrastination (p < .001). Finally, findings showed relevant data on Internet addiction’s prevalence in Mexican and Spanish university contexts, along with its influential sociodemographic factors. Public Library of Science 2020-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7244110/ /pubmed/32442238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233655 Text en © 2020 Aznar-Díaz et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Romero-Rodríguez, José-María
García-González, Abel
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Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors
title Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors
title_full Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors
title_fullStr Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors
title_full_unstemmed Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors
title_short Mexican and Spanish university students’ Internet addiction and academic procrastination: Correlation and potential factors
title_sort mexican and spanish university students’ internet addiction and academic procrastination: correlation and potential factors
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32442238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233655
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