Motivation of Academic Success and its Relation to Smartphone Addiction and Stress Related to Academic Expectations in Turkish High School Students

This article examines three subjects concerning teenagers. First, consider the psychological condition of motivation, which pushes individuals to pursue and achieve goals, and how it affects teenagers. Second, smartphone addiction may disrupt daily activities and have a detrimental impact on well-being. It further adds that using a smartphone might cause difficulties such as decreased concentration in class and bad effects on physical and mental health. The article also discusses the phenomena of stress associated with academic expectations, as well as how distress caused by discontent or awareness of approaching failure is a substantial source of stress for students and may lead to mental health problems. This paper emphasizes the importance of being aware of these issues of adolescents. We present six possible hypotheses and analyse our variables to determine them. First, we use correlation to see whether there is a significant relationship between these three variables. Secondly, we discovered a strong positive association between motivation for academic performance and stress over expectations (p=.002). We also discovered a positive and significant correlation between stress regarding expectations and smartphone addiction (p=.026). Thirdly, we run an independent t-test to see whether there are any gender differences in our variables. Fourthly, we revealed a gender difference in the level of stress about expectations (p=.005). Additionally, we discovered a significant connection between our variables and demographic characteristics. We established a strong correlation between academic motivation and having a private space: Adolescents with rooms for themselves ranked significantly higher in motivation than those without private rooms (p=.015). Furthermore, we discover a difference in smartphone addiction between students whose parents are married and those whose parents are divorced (p=.016). Moreover, we discovered a significant effect of siblings on stress levels (p=.036). Furthermore, we discover a significant difference between grades in motivation for academic performance (p=.042) and stress linked to expectations (p=.048). We also found that age had a substantial influence on motivation for academic performance (p=.010) and stress related to expectations (p=.005). Overall, in this study, we looked at some of the impacts on students' psychology, the significance of family attitudes in the student's life, a variety of factors that influence the student's academic life, and a few of the issues and consequences they face today. Keywords: Adolescents, motivation, stress, academic success, smartphone addiction.