Abstract: The present research study was conducted on the interrelations between social media addiction (SMA), academic procrastination, and mental well-being in a sample size of 215 college students. The data were collected with standardized questionnaires, e.g., Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (PASS), and Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) exhibited high psychometric quality for all scales with high factor loadings, high composite reliability, and acceptable model fit indices.....
Keywords: social media addiction – academic procrastination – mental well-being – structural equation modeling – confirmatory factor analysis – mediation – higher education.
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