Problematic Use of Mobile Phone and Its Influence on Academic Procrastination among Senior Nursing Students

Abstract

Background: The terms of Problematic use of mobile phones and academic procrastination both are defined as an excessive usage of mobile phone by ignoring time and all other assignments, and delay in educational assignments and all other academic activities till the deadline. Aim of study: The aim of the study was to assess the influence of Problematic Use of Mobile Phone on Academic Procrastination among Senior Nursing Students. Subjects and methods: a descriptive correlational design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: This study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing - Ain-Shams University. the study subjects were (240) nursing students during the academic year 2021-2022. The data were collected through two tools, these tools were namely; the problematic use of Mobile Phone scale (MPPUS-20), and the Academic Procrastination Scale (APS), first tool divided into two parts, 1st part Personal characteristics data, 2nd part, the problematic use of Mobile Phone scale (MPPUS-20), scale, the second tool the Academic Procrastination Scale (APS). The field work started from November 2021 to the end of January 2022. The results of the study revealed that, more than two thirds of senior nursing students (72.9%) had high total The Problematic Use of Mobile Phone level. Meanwhile (76.7%) of them had high total procrastination level (frequency). Moreover, there was no statistically significant difference between males and females in The Problematic Use of Mobile Phone. In academic procrastination, there were statistically significant differences between males and females in favor of males. Conclusions: The present study concluded that, the findings of the present study revealed that a considerable number of nursing students had high level of academic procrastination, and the higher level of Problematic Use of Mobile Phone was associated with higher level of Academic procrastination, in addition to, there were no significant differences in the levels of procrastination between gender of nursing students. Recommendations: we recommended that, the training programs about time management for nursing student during academic education, to minimize the negative impact of academic procrastination, Future studies are required to identify the factors associated with academic procrastination and academic motivation.