TITLE:
The Impact of College Students’ Academic Self-Efficacy on Cyberloafing: The Role of Moral Disengagement and Individual Self-Control
AUTHORS:
Jinhao Peng
KEYWORDS:
Cyberloafing, Self-Control, Moral Disengagement, Academic Self-Efficacy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.9 No.5,
May
23,
2022
ABSTRACT: This research hopes to explore the relationship between college students’ academic self-efficacy and cyberloafing and to study the mechanism of the relationship between academic self-efficacy and cyberloafing considering individual self-control and moral disengagement. In this study, a questionnaire method was used to investigate college students through self-control questionnaires, college student moral evasion questionnaires, cyberloafing questionnaires, and college student academic self-efficacy questionnaires. A total of 201 questionnaires were distributed, with 175 valid questionnaires. It was found that there was no difference in gender and grade in academic self-efficacy among college students; there was no grade difference but gender difference in cyberloafing; girls had more cyberloafing than boys. Academic self-efficacy and self-control were significantly negatively correlated with cyberloafing; moral disengagement was significantly positively related to cyberloafing. Moral disengagement and self-control played a parallel intermediary role between academic self-efficacy and online lounging.