The Relationship Between Problematic Mobile Usage and Academic Performance Among Students: The Mediating Role of Sleep Quality

The use of mobile phones has recently become an indispensable part of life. Although mobile phones have several advantages, their excessive use can make individuals prone to dependence. The present descriptive correlational study aimed to explore the relationship between problematic mobile use and academic performance among students by considering the mediating role of sleep quality.
The study was a descriptive correlational design. Stratified multi-stage sampling based on gender was used to select 172 students (101 females, 71 males) among the students of the Kashan University of Medical science and Health Services. The respondents filled out Cell-Phone Over-Use Scale (COS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). In addition, students’ pervious term Grade Point Average (GPA) was considered as the criterion for their academic performance. Pearson product moment correlation and hierarchical regression analysis were run in Spss (Version 22) to analyze the data.
The results revealed that excessive mobile use has a statistically significant negative relationship with academic performance and can inversely predict it (P Despite their beneficial uses, excessive use of mobile phones can have negative influences on sleep, mental health, and academic performance of students. Hence, it is highly important to help students use mobile phones purposefully, efficiently, and safely and enhance their knowledge of the negative effects of excessive mobile use.