Enwereuzor Ibeawuchi K, Ugwu Leonard I, Ugwu Dorothy I
Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Department of Health and Physical Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Asian J Gambl Issues Public Health. 2016;6(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s40405-016-0018-8. Epub 2016 Aug 26.
There are growing concerns that seem to suggest that students no longer engage in school-related activities as they ought to. Recent observation has revealed that students now spend excessive time participating in Internet gambling with their smartphone during school period. This trend could have far-reaching consequences on their schoolwork engagement and by extension, academic performance. Drawing on the Dualistic Model of Passion, this study therefore, examined the mediatory role of smartphone addiction in the gambling passion-schoolwork engagement relation. A cross-sectional design was adopted. Male undergraduates ( = 278) of a large public university in Nigeria who engage in Internet gambling participated in the study. They completed self-report measures of gambling passion, smartphone addiction, and schoolwork engagement. Results showed that harmonious gambling passion was not related to smartphone addiction whereas it was positively related to schoolwork engagement. Obsessive gambling passion had positive and negative relations with smartphone addiction and schoolwork engagement, respectively. Smartphone addiction was negatively related to schoolwork engagement and mediated only the obsessive gambling passion-schoolwork engagement relation but not that between harmonious gambling passion and schoolwork engagement. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
人们越来越担心，似乎表明学生不再像他们应该的那样参与与学校相关的活动。最近的观察表明，学生现在在上学期间花费过多时间用智能手机参与网络赌博。这种趋势可能会对他们的学业参与度产生深远影响，进而影响学业成绩。因此，本研究借鉴激情的二元模型，考察了智能手机成瘾在赌博激情与学业参与关系中的中介作用。采用了横断面设计。尼日利亚一所大型公立大学中参与网络赌博的男性本科生（n = 278）参与了该研究。他们完成了关于赌博激情、智能手机成瘾和学业参与的自我报告测量。结果表明，和谐的赌博激情与智能手机成瘾无关，而与学业参与呈正相关。强迫性赌博激情分别与智能手机成瘾和学业参与呈正相关和负相关。智能手机成瘾与学业参与呈负相关，并且仅中介了强迫性赌博激情与学业参与之间的关系，而不是和谐的赌博激情与学业参与之间的关系。讨论了研究结果的理论和实践意义。
