Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-384
Authors: Reinecke, Leonard
Meier, Adrian
Beutel, Manfred E.
Schemer, Christian
Stark, Birgit
Wölfling, Klaus
Müller, Kai
Title: The relationship between trait procrastination, Internet use, and psychological functioning : results from a community sample of German adolescents
Online publication date: 16-Jul-2018
Year of first publication: 2018
Language: english
Abstract: Adolescents with a strong tendency for irrational task delay (i.e., high trait procrastination) may be particularly prone to use Internet applications simultaneously to other tasks (e.g., during homework) and in an insufficiently controlled fashion. Both Internet multitasking and insufficiently controlled Internet usage may thus amplify the negative mental health implications that have frequently been associated with trait procrastination. The present study explored this role of Internet multitasking and insufficiently controlled Internet use for the relationship between trait procrastination and impaired psychological functioning in a community sample of N = 818 early and middle adolescents. Results from multiple regression analyses indicate that trait procrastination was positively related to Internet multitasking and insufficiently controlled Internet use. Insufficiently controlled Internet use, but not Internet multitasking, was found to partially statistically mediate the association between trait procrastination and adolescents’ psychological functioning (i.e., stress, sleep quality, and relationship satisfaction with parents). The study underlines that adolescents with high levels of trait procrastination may have an increased risk for negative outcomes of insufficiently controlled Internet use.
DDC: 150 Psychologie
150 Psychology
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
FB 04 Medizin
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-384
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-583515
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License: CC BY
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal: Frontiers in psychology
9
Pages or article number: Art. 913
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
Publisher place: Lausanne
Issue date: 2018
ISSN: 1664-1078
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00913
Publisher DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00913
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