Authors : Pallavi Nair

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 8 - August

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26aug829

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Abstract : Bedtime social media use is a behaviorally specific form of digital media exposure that may compete with sleeprelated routines and next-day academic self-regulation. Academic procrastination, in parallel, reflects the voluntary delay of intended academic activity despite anticipated disadvantage. This publication-style study demonstrates a quantitative framework for testing their association among university students. A synthetic dataset of 100 cases was used to illustrate the prespecified analysis; no participant responses are represented. Bedtime social media use was operationalized as a sevenitem nighttime-use score and academic procrastination as a 25-item academic-specific score. The simulated measures showed high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = .90 and .96).

Keywords : Bedtime Social Media Use; Academic Procrastination; University Students; Self-Regulation; Sleep; Smartphone Behavior.

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