Predicting Cyberloafing through psychological needs with Conscientiousness and being goal-oriented as mediators among students of University

The aim of this correlational study was to predict cyberloafing through basic psychological needs with conscientiousness and goal-orientation as mediators. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate students of the faculty of Humanities at Mazandaran University during the 2016 academic year. A total of 321 students were selected using stratified proportional sampling. To collect data, the Cyberloafing scale (Doorn, 2011), Conscientiousness of the Big Five Personality Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1992), Mastery Goal Orientation scale (Midgley, Kaplan Middleton, 1998), and the Psychological Needs Questionnaire based on William Glasser’s theory (Burns, Vance, Szadokierski, Stockwell, 2006) were used. AMOSS-22 software for structural equation analysis of the obtained data. According to the results, the need for survival and the need for belonging could indirectly predict cyberloafing with conscientiousness and mastery goal orientation as mediators. Moreover, the needs for fun, mastery goal orientation, and conscientiousness could directly predict cyberloafing.