CONNECTING MINDS AND SCREENS: THE MEDIATING INFLUENCE OF CYBERLOAFING ON COGNITIVE ABSORPTION AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING

Elrisfa Magistarina (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Rahayu Hardianti Utami (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Rizal Kurniawan (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Dedi Supendra (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Verlanda Yuca (University of Sheffield)
Putri Anisa (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Altashya Nurul Budiani (Universitas Negeri Padang)
Yonatri Cahya Ningtias (Universitas Negeri Padang)

Jurnal RAP (Riset Aktual Psikologi Universitas Negeri Padang)
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024)

Social well-being is a part of subjective well-being used to measure mental health as a measurement of mental health, which is an indicator of quality of life. People can achieve social well-being when they have a good and deep quality relationship with others. However, people use technology almost daily, impairing their social well-being. Moreover, they also tend to do cyberloafing, which makes them spend more time on their gadget. This project's principal objective was to investigate cyberloafing's effect on cognitive absorption and social well-being. A quantitative method using three questionnaires (cognitive absorption scale, cyberloafing questionnaire, and social well-being) involving 178 respondents was employed. The data was analyzed using Mediation Analysis in JASP software. The findings indicated a partial mediation in cyberloafing on the relationship between cognitive absorption and cyberloafing.