Social Media Addiction as Correlate of Academic Procrastination Among Students of Faculty of Social Sciences in Enugu State University of Science and Technology

Ugwuanyi Benedict Chidi; Zbigniew Formella; Ugochukwu Ekpereamaka Loveth

doi:10.21697/fp.2024.2.1.21

Published: 2024-12-31

Vol. 14 No. 2.1 (2024)

Social Media Addiction as Correlate of Academic Procrastination Among Students of Faculty of Social Sciences in Enugu State University of Science and Technology

Ugwuanyi Benedict Chidi , Zbigniew Formella , Ugochukwu Ekpereamaka Loveth

Pedagogical Forum

Section: Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2024.2.1.21

Abstract

Academic procrastination can be defined as the tendency to postpone and delay academic tasks or ignoring academic responsibility during the entire course of studies. The indicators of academic procrastination are postponed or delay the beginning of the task, delay finishing or submitting the assignments, pass over the deadline of task that has been planned and do other interesting activities than finishing the tasks. Part of the reason could be that students are always busy on social media. The study examined social media addiction as a correlate of academic procrastination among students of faculty of social sciences in State University of Science and Technology, Enugu State, Nigeria. Two sets of instruments were used in this study, they include McCloskey, academic procrastination scale and Sahin, social media addiction scale student form. Results indicated that social media addiction was also not significantly related to academic procrastination among students of faculty of social sciences (r = .09, p > .05).

Keywords:

Academic procrastination, Social Media, Decision Making

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Chidi, U. B., Formella, Z., & Loveth, U. E. (2024). Social Media Addiction as Correlate of Academic Procrastination Among Students of Faculty of Social Sciences in Enugu State University of Science and Technology. Pedagogical Forum, 14(2.1), 287–296. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2024.2.1.21

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Ugwuanyi Benedict Chidi

Zbigniew Formella

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