Education Quarterly Reviews, vol.5, no.2, pp.449-463, 2022 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Cyberloafing is a widely recognized concept associated with the Internet, which has a wide usage area today.
Cyberloafing is extensively noticed, particularly among young people, and its association with a variety of
variables is being researched. In this study, university students' life goals and cyberloafing profiles were analyzed
on the basis of gender, age, class, grade point average, relationship status, faculty, foreign language knowledge,
daily digital tool usage time, age of first using the internet, and digital devices used. The research's study group
was comprised of university students from Izmir's public and private universities. 334 students posted data. The
study excluded 31 participants who were found to have missing or incomplete data. The study group included 303
students. As data collection instruments, the cyberloafing scale, life goals scale, and personal information form
were employed. According to the data, there is a positive and moderate association between students' levels of
cyberloafing and their life goals. Cyberloafing varies according to criteria such as age, gender, faculty, and daily
internet usage. Similarly, it was found that life goals changed depending on department, relationship status, and
daily internet usage time