The relationship between online game addiction and academic procrastination behavior in university students

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between university students' game addiction and academic procrastination behaviors. The research was carried out with 413 (194 female, 219 male) university students. The data of the research were obtained by using the online game addiction scale and academic procrastination scale. It was concluded that the data were normally distributed by looking at the Skewness and Kurtosis values, whether the research provided the normality distribution. Pearson Correlation Analysis was conducted to understand whether there is a significant relationship between academic procrastination behavior and online game addiction variables. Variables of academic procrastination and online game addiction, demographic information form, and demographic information of the participants, including gender, class level, and income, were examined. When the relationship between the two variables of the study was examined, a significant relationship was found between academic procrastination behavior and online game addiction. There is a weak negative relationship between academic procrastination behavior and online game addiction. As a result of the simple regression analysis performed to reveal the predictive power of academic procrastination behavior of online gaming addiction, the predictive power of online gaming addiction's academic procrastination behavior was found to be statistically significant. Statistical analyzes used in the research can be listed as Hierarchical Regression Analysis (Pearson, Piecewise or Spearman), Parametric tests (T test, OneWayAnova) or Nonparametric Tests (Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and Mann Whitney U). As a result, a weak negative correlation was found between academic procrastination behavior and online game addiction. The predictive power of academic procrastination behavior of online gaming addiction was found to be statistically significant. Online gaming addiction explains 5% of the total variance of academic procrastination behavior.