The Relationship Between Cell Phone Use and Academic Performance in a Sample of U.S. College Students

Andrew Lepp, Jacob E. Barkley and Aryn C. Karpinski

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 1, 2158244015573169

Abstract: The cell phone is ever-present on college campuses and is frequently used in settings where learning occurs. This study assessed the relationship between cell phone use and actual college grade point average (GPA) after controlling for known predictors. As such, 536 undergraduate students from 82 self-reported majors at a large, public university were sampled. A hierarchical regression ( R 2 = .449) demonstrated that cell phone use was significantly ( p

Keywords: education; technology; ICT; mobile phones; smartphones; GPA; self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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