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Deteriorated Sleep Quality Does Not Explain the Negative Impact of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance

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  • Amez, Simon

    (Ghent University)

  • Vujic, Suncica

    (University of Antwerp)

  • Abrath, Margo

    (University of Antwerp)

  • Baert, Stijn

    (Ghent University)

Abstract

University students' smartphone use has recently been shown to negatively affect their academic performance. Surprisingly, research testing the empirical validity of potential mechanisms underlying this relationship is very limited. In particular, indirect effects of negative health consequences due to heavy smartphone use have never been investigated. To fill this gap, we investigate, for the first time, whether deteriorated sleep quality drives the negative impact on academic performance. To this end, we examine longitudinal data on 1,635 students at two major Belgian universities. Based on a combination of a random effects approach and seemingly unrelated regression, we find no statistically significant mediating effect of sleep quality in the relationship between smartphone use and academic performance.

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  • Amez, Simon & Vujic, Suncica & Abrath, Margo & Baert, Stijn, 2021. "Deteriorated Sleep Quality Does Not Explain the Negative Impact of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance," IZA Discussion Papers 14547, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    smartphone use; academic performance; sleep quality; mediation analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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