Personal Profiles, Family Environment, Patterns of Smartphone Use, Nomophobia, and Smartphone Addiction across Low, Average, and High Perceived Academic Performance Levels among High School Students in the Philippines.

Danilo B Buctot,Nami Kim,Sun-Hee Kim

doi:10.3390/ijerph18105219

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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105219

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(1) Background: Problematic smartphone use in adolescents has become a major concern among parents and educators. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with, and the predictors of, low, average, and high perceived academic performance (PAP). (2) Methods: Descriptive and comparative analyses were employed in this cross-sectional study among 3374 Filipino high school students through an online Google forms survey. (3) Results: We found that age, grade level, father’s education, time spent daily on weekends, frequency of use on weekdays, purpose of use, nomophobia (NMP), and smartphone addiction (SA) were significantly associated with low PAP, while frequency of use on weekends and type of internet access had a significant association with high PAP. Gender was a significant predictor of low, average, and high PAP. Father’s education and SA were also significant predictors for both low and average PAP. (4) Conclusions: This study shows the significant association between personal profiles, family environment, patterns of smartphone use, NMP, and SA contributing to a significant impact on Filipino high school students’ PAP. This suggests that proper guidelines for smartphone use should be provided at home and in school settings to raise awareness of the adverse effects of SA on students’ academic performance.

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We found that gender was a significant predictor of low, average, and high perceived academic performance (PAP), which is in line with previous findings that suggested that gender is an important factor in academic grades [87]
This study clearly revealed the significant association between personal profiles, family environment, patterns of smartphone use, NMP, and smartphone addiction (SA), and students’ low and high PAP
Our findings suggest that Filipino high school students with high smartphone use perceived their academic performance to be better

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Smartphone Use, Nomophobia, Smartphone Addiction, and Academic Performance. Many studies have discussed the negative effects of smartphone addiction (SA) on individuals’ mental health and well-being [1] as well as on adolescents’. More recent studies have pointed out the negative effects of smartphone use on students’ academic performance [1,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]. Studies that deal with the effects of smartphone use on academic performance have been conducted from various perspectives. Some have examined learning activities through smartphone use and found a lower grade point average (GPA) and cumulative GPA (CGPA)

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