In an era where information and communication
technologies (ICT) have pervaded human lives, our daily duration of interaction
with technological interfaces is increasing steadily. This is especially true
of the world’s young population, which includes pre-service teachers. This
increased exposure to and interaction with ICT naturally brings about negative
effects, alongside its benefits. Among these negative effects are phenomena
named cyberloafing and cognitive absorption. The purpose of this study is to investigate
the relationship between cyberloafing behavior and cognitive absorption of
pre-service teachers. A sample population of 376 pre-service teachers has been
determined via random sampling method among students in various programs of
Trakya University Faculty of Education. Data has been collected via
“Cyberloafing in Educational Settings Scale” and “Cognitive Absorption Scale”.
Findings have shown a weak positive correlation between cyberloafing incidence
and cognitive absorption in pre-service teachers. In addition, a statistically
meaningful relationship between cyberloafing incidence and academic success has
been shown, while no meaningful relationship between cognitive absorption and
academic success was displayed. Furthermore, statistically significant
differences between cyberloafing levels of pre-service teachers grouped by
gender, number of technological devices owned, having a social media
account and number of social media accounts have been found; whereas cognitive
absorption has also been discovered to significantly influenced by having a
social media account and number of social media accounts of pre-service
teachers.
Birincil Dil | Türkçe |
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Bölüm | Araştırma Makalesi |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 31 Aralık 2019 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2019 Cilt: 21 Sayı: 2 |