Procrastination in the digital era: The role of smartphone habits in students’ academic life

This study explores the level of smartphone addiction and its relationship with academic procrastination among university students. The data was collected from 233 university students. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) is used to analyse the data. The findings of the study state that there is a high level of smartphone addiction as well as academic procrastination. The results also state that smartphone addiction and academic procrastination are significantly and positively correlated (r=.52), and smartphone addiction is a significant predictor of academic procrastination. The data consists of 148 female students and 85 male students. Demographic variables (age and gender) were examined, and the results showed that students’ age and gender were not associated with smartphone addiction.