Abstract
Youths’ inquisitiveness draws and attracts them to innovations; social media is not different. Among undergraduates, the use of social media as an evolving way of life may have reached addiction level with its consequences. Given this disturbing situation, this study explored compulsive social media use as an encouraging factor in academic procrastination among students with its consequences on students’ academic achievement among undergraduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Using a correlation design which was tested at 0.05 significance, the study evaluated the responses of 965 undergraduate students selected through cluster sampling during their examinations. Social Media Scale (SSMAS) and Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) was used as instrument for data collection. Academic achievement was measured using the students’ cumulative grade point. Data were analyzed using regression analysis and result revealed that 33.47% of the undergraduate exhibit high levels of academic procrastination, 42.70% exhibit a moderate level of academic procrastination 23.83% exhibit academic procrastination among undergraduate students. The result further indicated that social media addiction predicted both academic procrastination and academic achievement among the undergraduates. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others, that students should be channeled into the proper use of social media for academic purposes irrespective of their gender with counseling services to help those with chronic or addictive use.
Highlights
One of the primary reasons for getting enrolled in any university academic programme is to acquire advanced knowledge for better academic achievement to prepare the students to fit into the global trend where education is an essential development index
The inference drawn was, that there was a significant relationship between social media addiction and academic procrastination among undergraduate students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University
The finding of this study shows that social media addiction has a low but positive relationship with the academic achievement of undergraduate students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Summary
One of the primary reasons for getting enrolled in any university academic programme is to acquire advanced knowledge for better academic achievement to prepare the students to fit into the global trend where education is an essential development index. In their study, Yakut and Kuru (2020) found that social media addiction has no direct positive effect on academic procrastination among students. Ipem and Okwara-Kalu further aver that though most students visit the internet for useful information for academic tasks but end up distracted in WhatsApp, Facebook and the likes This distraction which could lead to academic procrastination is usually experienced by most students irrespective of gender. This study, sought to find out if the relationship of social media addiction with academic procrastination and achievement among undergraduate students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka using a correlation method will be consistent with either of the results in the existing literature. Data collected were analyzed Frequency, Percentages, Pearson Product Moment Correlation for answering research questions and linear regression was applied in testing the hypothesis
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