Conscientiousness, Academic Stress, And Cyberloafing Among Final-Year Students

Abstract

The availability of internet access is expected to improve the learning achievement of college students, but some final-year students at Universitas Islam 45 use the campus internet for cyberloafing, which has a negative impact on their learning achievement. This study aims to explore the relationship between conscientiousness and academic stress levels with cyberloafing behavior in final-year students of Universitas Islam 45. The research subjects were 304 students. The measuring instruments used were the cyberloafing scale, Big Five Inventory Conscientiousness (BFI), and academic stress scale. Data analysis used the Spearman rank correlation test and simple linear regression. This study found that conscientiousness is unrelated to cyberloafing, while academic stress is related to cyberloafing. Academic stress can increase cyberloafing by 17%.