Mobile phone addiction, time management disposition and academic motivation among Chinese medical college students

This study was to understand the current situation of mobile phone addiction, time management disposition and academic motivation of undergraduate medical students, to clarify the differences in general demographic characteristics of mobile phone addiction, time management disposition and academic motivation of undergraduate medical students, and to analyze the correlation between mobile phone addiction, time management disposition and academic motivation of undergraduate medical students, so as to provide reference materials to reduce addiction on mobile phones of undergraduate medical students.The random sampling method was used to select a university in Shandong Province, and 354 medical students were investigated by questionnaires.The results show that the level of surveyed medical students' addiction on mobile phones is below average, but still needs to be improved.There are significant differences in mobile phone addiction and its dimensions among different daily mobile phone usage time, purpose and monthly mobile phone consumption.Among the four dimensions of mobile phones addition, the avoidance dimension has the highest score and there are significant gender differences in the avoidance dimension; The time management disposition of surveyed undergraduate medical students is at an above-average level.Medical students have the best time value, and the worst time monitoring.There are significant differences in the perspective of time monitoring on types of family education; The academic motivation level of the surveyed medical students is above the average level and medical students' academic motivation is mainly based on internal motivation; There is a significant negative correlation between mobile phone addiction and time management disposition.The correlation between mobile phone addiction and academic motivation is not significant.There is a significant positive correlation between time management disposition and academic motivation.Based on the above results, this study recommends that educators can reduce medical students' addiction on mobile phones by reducing mobile phone use time, controlling consumption, guiding students to use mobile phones for learning needs, improving college students' time management and control abilities, and fully stimulating internal learning motivation.