Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of sleep quality and academic procrastination in relationship between smartphone addiction tendencies and academic burnout for university students.
 Methods The Self-report survey was conducted on 426 (under)graduate students. To measure the variables, the S-scale-A (Korean Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale for Adults), SQS (The Sleep Quality Scale), API (Aitken Procrastination Inventory), and MBI-SS (Korean version of Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey) were included in the survey.
 Results The findings of this study showed that smartphone addiction tendencies, low sleep quality, academic procrastination, and academic burnout were all significantly correlated in a positive direction. Furthermore, the results indicated that low sleep quality and academic procrastination had a sequential mediating effect on the relationship between smartphone addiction tendencies and academic burnout.
 Conclusions The results specify the mediating role of low sleep quality and academic procrastination in relationship between smartphone addiction tendencies and academic burnout for (under)graduate students. Finally, the clinical implications, limitations of this study and future research directions were suggested.
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