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Perceived Stress and Cyberloafing among College Students: The Mediating Roles of Fatigue and Negative Coping Styles

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  • Yan Chen

    (Department of Education, Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
    Key Laboratory of Adolescent Csyberpsychology and Behavior, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
    School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China)

  • Hong Chen

    (Department of Foreign Languages, Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China)

  • Frank Andrasik

    (Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA)

  • Chuanhua Gu

    (Key Laboratory of Adolescent Csyberpsychology and Behavior, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
    School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Central China Normal University Branch, Wuhan 430079, China)

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Cyberloafing has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars because of the widespread use of digital devices in educational environments. This research was conducted to investigate the roles of fatigue and negative coping styles in mediating the relationship between perceived stress and cyberloafing. A total of 730 undergraduates (reduced to 716 due to incomplete data) completed self-report questionnaires measuring perceived stress, fatigue, negative coping styles, and cyberloafing. Perceived stress was shown to be a significant predictor of cyberloafing. Furthermore, negative coping styles played a unique mediating role and fatigue and negative coping styles exerted a sequential mediating effect on the association between perceived stress and cyberloafing. We envision the findings as being helpful in guiding educators develop interventions for minimizing cyberloafing by college students and its disrupting effects.

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  • Yan Chen & Hong Chen & Frank Andrasik & Chuanhua Gu, 2021. "Perceived Stress and Cyberloafing among College Students: The Mediating Roles of Fatigue and Negative Coping Styles," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-12, April.
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