Digital stress and its relationship to academic procrastination

Abstract

The current research aimed to clarify the nature of the correlation between digital pressure and academic procrastination among a sample of students at Al-Mustansiriya University, College of Arts, numbering (414) male and female students. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher adopted the digital pressure scale translated into Arabic by (2023) Krägeloh et al, consisting of (24) paragraphs. The researcher also adopted the academic procrastination scale by (2022) Soares et al, which was prepared for university students, and translated it

into Arabic, consisting of (25) paragraphs. The validity of the translation of the scale was verified. The psychometric properties of the two scales were also verified, and their stability coefficient using Cronbach's alpha for the digital pressure scale reached (0.91), and the academic procrastination scale (0.86). The research results concluded that the level of digital pressure among university students is low, and there is a statistically significant difference in the level of digital pressure according to the gender variable in favor of males, and that university students have academic procrastination, and there is a significant difference Statistically, academic procrastination according to the gender variable was in favor of males as well, and the relationship between the two variables was significant and positive.