Investigating the relationship between cyber loafing and job performance of employees of sports offices in Mazandaran province

Document Type : Original Article

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1 MSc of Leisure Time Management and Recreational Sports, lecturer at Payame Noor University, Babol, Iran."

2 MSc of Sport Injuries and Corrective Exercise, Faculty of Physical Education anıl Sport Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht.

10.22091/its.2025.12386.1012

Abstract

In recent years, technology has been growing faster. Organizations are moving to digitalization, so they are increasing their use of the Internet in their workplace. In this regard, There is a challenging phenomenon called cyber loafing or cyberbullying that It is on the rise in the workplace, and these features raise an interesting question about how different people use social media and how these different applications affect job performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cyber loafing and job performance of employees of sports offices in Mazandaran province. The research method was correlation and its statistical population consisted of all employees of sports departments in Mazandaran province in 2021, which was a total of 271 people. Among these individuals, a sample of 156 people was selected according to Krejcie Morgan's formula by available sampling method and were evaluated using Cyber loafing Askew questionnaires and Patterson Job Performance Scale. Research data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis using SPSS-22 software. The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between all dimensions of cyber loafing and all dimensions of job performance of employees of sports offices in Mazandaran province (sig<0.05). The results of multiple regression showed that cyber loafing and its components are significantly able to predict and explain 41.3% of the job performance of employees of sports offices in Mazandaran province. The results of the present study showed that cyber loafing is effective in the job performance of employees of sports offices in Mazandaran province.

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Information technology and sports
Volume 1, Issue 1
April 2025
Pages 138-157

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  • Receive Date: 15 February 2025
  • Revise Date: 18 March 2025
  • Accept Date: 18 March 2025

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