• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.49-60
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• 2013

The spread of smartphone in Korea causes several side effects and raises concerns. Especially, recently the addiction to smartphone of elementary school children has been paid attention to by their parents, teachers, and so on. After literature review, this research presented hypotheses that depression would affect children's addiction to smartphone positively and school life satisfaction (SLS) negatively, in turn their addiction to smartphone would affect SLS negatively. We employed Partial Least Square (PLS) path modeling to test the hypotheses. We found that all hypotheses were supported. The findings of this study suggest that their families and school authorities should make valid measures to lessen children's depression for preventing addicting to smartphone and, in turn, increasing SLS.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.429-437
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate physical activity level, sleep quality, attention control, and self-regulated learning along to smartphone addiction level among college students. The data were obtained from 269 college students by structured questionnaire, analyzed using SPSS 18.0. The results showed that significant differences with smartphone addictoin level and, gender, grade level, daily using time, physical activity level, sleep quality and attention control. Smartphone addictoin level have correlations with physical activity level, sleep quality, attention control, and self-regulated learning. To prevent the falling off of physical strength and poor school performance, it is needed a strategies for control of smartphone addiction.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.173-181
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• 2020

The objective of the present study was to identify the factors influencing the smartphone addiction among college students and to obtain basic information in terms of enhancing proper use of the smartphone. Based on the previous literature with constructs of depression, aggression, self-control and smartphone addiction, a research model was prepared. A total of 332 students were selected from 5 universities in G Metropolitan City and collected data were analyzed through hierarchical multiple regression. The major results of the study were as follows. First, self-control was the most powerful predictor of smartphone addiction. Second, anger caused smartphone addiction to increase whereas social experience caused smartphone addiction to decrease. Third, depression did not cause smartphone addiction to increase. Finally, implications for preventing and decreasing the smartphone addiction among college students were also provided.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.82-98
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• 2018

Internet overdependence has become a public health concern in Korea. It is well known that family and community level efforts could alleviate possible harms from Internet use. However, little research exists regarding smartphone overdependence. This study examines factors affecting smartphone overdependence and, specifically, help-seeking for smartphone overdependence among Korean adolescents. The study is based on parental mediation theory and uses a help-seeking framework. The results indicate that preventative education provided by school and community increases the levels of awareness of both the possible harms from smartphone use and the option of accessing the mental health service, while it was not effective in preventing smartphone overdependence. Parental mediation was a protective factor for smartphone overdependence but was negatively associated with the intention to use the mental health service. In sum, behavioral problems related to smartphone use require multidimensional preventative efforts from both the family and the community. It is suggested that effective preventive education methods are developed for parents and adolescents.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.299-308
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• 2015

This study investigated the differences of the ego-resilience and disagreement in parents' rearing attitude according to the levels of the smartphone addiction of adolescents. To conduct this study, 317 adolescents participated in the survey. The major findings of the study was as follows: First, the smartphone addiction rate was 21.1%, which the high risk group rate was 5.3% and potential risk group rate was 15.8%. Second, ego-resilience was indicated to be lower in the high risk user group than the potential risk user group and the general user group, and disagreement in parents' rearing attitude was indicated to be higher in the high risk user group than the general user group, thereby having indicated to have statistically significant difference. The results of this study, it could be known that ego-resilience and agreement of parents' rearing attitude was significant factors to prevent smartphone addiction of adolescents.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.567-574
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• 2014

This paper is about an analysis of the result of the survey which is how the use of smartphone affects the creative personality, focused on 4th and 6th grade in Elementary school, by smartphone addiction self-diagnosis and creative personality test. As a result of the analysis, 6th graders were influenced by their possession of smartphone and the degree of one's smartphone addiction on their creative personality. However, the usage period of smartphone did not turn out to affect their creative personality. In addition, none of the factors above, related to students' smartphone usage, influenced the creative personality of 4th graders. Particularly, there was a negative correlation between the level of students' smartphone addiction and the creative personality and it was found that whether the students own a smartphone or not played a crucial role in creative personality rather than the usage period of smartphone. Therefore, students should be properly educated how to use smartphone appropriately and to prevent them from smartphone addiction in order to improve creative personality which is one of the core competences in 21st century.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.113-123
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• 2016

This study investigated the effect of self-esteem and depression on smartphone addiction among university students. A descriptive correlation study design was used with a convenience sample consisting of 349 university students. SPSS Win21.0 program was used for the descriptive analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient analysis, and multiple-regression analysis. The significant factors for Smartphone addiction were spent time on smartphone, improve test score, and depression. These factors explained 28% of the variance in Smartphone addiction. In conclusion, the results of this study indicated that for university students with smartphone addiction and depression, there is a need to develop an intervention program to prevent smartphone addiction and improve depression. Thus, it is important to provide services to reduce depression among university students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.140-151
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• 2014

This study aims to examine the effects of adolescents' family function and School adjustment resilience on smartphone addiction through verification using the structural equation model. To attain the goal, the study collected data through a survey to elementary school fifth and sixth graders and middle school students living in Busan during March in 20l3. The result of this study shows that family function exerts negative effects on smartphone addiction and positive effects on school adjustment resilience. And smartphone addiction is found to show partial mediating effects in the relations between family function and school adjustment resilience. Based on the above results of this study, the paper suggests measures to enhance social interest in adolescent smartphone addiction and also methods to prevent smartphone addiction and intervene with families and schools for therapeutic intervention.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.39-50
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• 2017

This study examined what leads to smartphone addiction by looking into personal, environmental, and smartphone characteristics, to identify their influences on the degree of addiction and changes in daily life. Therefore, surveys were conducted on college undergraduates, who get easily addicted to smartphones The study hypotheses were evaluated through a structural equation model on a total of 370 collected survey questionnaires Findings revealed: first, with reference to personal characteristics, the more competent and highly related one is, the more negatively influenced one is in getting addicted to smartphones. Second, as for environmental characteristics, the bigger the social impact is, the more positively influenced one is on smartphone addiction. Third, among the characteristics of a smartphone, the ubiquity showed a positive influence on smartphone addiction. Lastly, the degree to which one is addicted to a smartphone has(either positive or negative) on the changes in one's daily life. These results are not intended to blindly inhibit smartphone use by highlighting the negative aspects of smartphones, but are expected to serve as basic data to develop a preventative and remedial program based on the degree of smartphone addiction.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.389-400
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• 2014

This study was conducted to investigate how adolescent's smart phone addiction affect psychological mindedness. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, Jeonju-si and Jeollabuk-do adolescent's enrolled in a survey. t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis and regression analysis was performed by using SPSS program. The result of this study is that adolescent's smart phone addiction affect on psychological mindedness significantly. Smartphone addiction had a significant influence on psychological mindedness in negative way. The results of this study of adolescent's addicted to smartphones with a greater understanding of material will be important to broaden adolescent's is desirable to recognize the direction of smartphones will be able to provide that opportunity.