• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.213-219
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• 2019

This study is a descriptive research on the relationship among smartphone addiction, lack of sleep and sleeping hours of undergraduates. The subjects include 280 students enrolled in G university and data were collected from Sep. 6 to Oct. 10, 2018. On average, each score of smartphone addiction, sleeping hours and lack of sleep was $34.79{\pm}7.6$, $6.43{\pm}1.34$ and $10.14{\pm}3.14$ respectively. Smartphone addition had a significantly positive correlation with lack of sleep(r=.277, p<0.01) and a positive correlation with its sub-areas, such as disability in daily life(r=.269, p<0.01), virtual(r=.151, p<0.01), withdrawal(r=.303, p<0.01), tolerance(r=.184, p<0.01). The education and counselling for preventing undergraduates from smartphone addiction and further studies on them are required.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.353-361
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• 2020

This study examined the effects of pre-service early childhood teacher's adult-attachment, mental-health and resilience on smartphone addiction tendency. The participants were 283 pre-service early childhood teachers in Seoul and Kyungkido. Collected self-report data were analyzed by correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The results were as follows. First, there were 228 people (81 percent) in the regular user group and 55 people(19 percent) in the risk user group. Second, there were significant differences in adult-attachment, mental-health and resilience according to smartphone addiction tendency. Third, anxiety(adult-attachment) and mental-health had a positive correlation, and control and affirmation(resilience) had a negative correlation with pre-service early childhood teachers' smartphone addiction tendency. Fourth, all variables influenced pre-service early childhood teachers' smartphone addiction tendency. This study provides practical suggestions for smartphone usage and preventive measures for pre-service early childhood teachers' smartphone addiction.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.487-495
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• 2017

The purposes of this study were to find smart-phone addiction how to mediate between worker's stress, anxiety and work commitment. The subject of survey was 329 workers in a public cooperation, and the data were analyzed by AMOS 18.0. The major findings were as follows; First, the higher the stress and anxiety, the more the direct effect on smartphone addiction. Second, smartphone addiction showed a significant negative relationship with work commitment. Third, smartphone addiction played a mediating role in the relationship between stress, anxiety, and work commitment. Workers with high levels of stress and anxiety were over-dependent on smartphones, which resulted in a decrease in work commitment. In order to prevent the problem of smartphone addiction of workers, it is necessary to prepare guidelines for correct use of smartphone in the workplace and service support should be provided according to the level of addiction. In addition, in order to improve work commitment, active support from the aspect of corporate welfare is needed to manage stress well. Finally, this study has a policy implication in that it reveals the route leading to smartphone addiction.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.398-407
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• 2017

This study examined the relationship among smartphone addiction, life stress, and family communication in nursing students. A total of 172 subjects participated in this study and the data were collected using the structured questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using an independent t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression using the SPSS WIN 19.0 program. Overall, the level of stress was high, time of family communication was short, and smartphone addiction rate was high in nursing students. The high risk group of smartphone addiction was 14.0%, potential risk group was 29.0%, and normal group was 57.0%. In the risk group, the life stress was higher (t=3.15, p=.002) and family communication was not better (t=-2.53, p=.012) than the normal group. Smartphone addiction correlated significantly with life stress (r=.27, p<.001) and family communication (r=-.26, p=.001). The factors affecting smartphone addiction were smartphone usage time, life stress, importance of smartphones in their lives, and family communication, and the explanatory power was 31.3%. Based on these results, it is necessary to develop personalized and collective customized intervention programs focused on smartphone using method, life stress management, and family communication for the prevention and management of smartphone addiction of nursing students.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.395-405
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of parental rearing attitudes on smartphone addiction and mediation effect of children's aggression and impulse between them. The randomly chosen 390 subjects of the 4th and 5th elementary school students (boy: 199, girl: 191) of J City participated in this research. The main scales were EMBU-Shot, Smartphone Addiction Scale and NEO-PAS. Spss 22.0 was used for its statistical analysis, that is correlation analysis and regression analysis. The main results are as follows. First, parental rearing attitude, smartphone addiction, and aggression and impulse were statistically significantly correlated. Second, it is testified that rejective parental rearing attitudes statistically significantly increasingly influenced smartphone addiction with partial mediation of aggression and impulse. Also overprotective parental rearing attitudes statistically significantly increasingly influenced smartphone addiction with full mediation of them. It suggested the importance of intervention for aggression and impulse of the children with smartphone addiction as well as parental rearing attitude changes in intervening and counseling them. This study tried to supply evidence-based and basic data for the developing preventive education and counseling programs for them. The limit and future tasks were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.417-425
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• 2020

In the present study, practical measures were to be presented for prevention of smartphone game addiction and school violence by analysis of the effects aspect of the smartphone game addition by elementary school students on school violence awareness. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was conducted for the subject of 6th graders attending an elementary school located in K city of Jeollanam-do, and a total of 258 copies were utilized as the final analysis data. Considering the analysis results, significant differences in the smartphone game addition were observed first as a function of the elementary school students' sex and game use time. The level of smartphone game addiction was observed to become higher for male students than female students, and the higher the longer the game use time during a day. Secondly, a positive (+) correlation was observed to exist between the smartphone game addiction and the school violence awareness. Thirdly, the variable affecting the school violence awareness among individual sub-variables for the smartphone game addiction was shown to be a problem with loss of control and power of reality test. The higher the addiction level of each variable, the negative tendency for school violence awareness was shown to be increased. Based on such analysis results, policy-wise, practical suggestions as well as directions for the follow-up studies have been presented for the improvement of smartphone game addiction and school violence awareness.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.229-237
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• 2019

The present study examined the mediating effects of self-esteem on the relationships between adult attachment and smartphone addiction. Participants were recruited from universities in a number of cities in Korea and they were given the survey including instruments that measured adult attachment, self-esteem, and smartphone addiction. Total 230 participants' data were analyzed and the results indicated anxious attachment was significantly positively correlated with smartphone addiction but negatively associated with self-esteem. Avoidant attachment was only negatively associated with self-esteem. Furthermore, self-esteem partially mediated the relationship between anxious attachment and smartphone addiction. Current findings can contribute to the development of the effective prevention/intervention programs of smart phone addiction for a young adults.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.139-148
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• 2017

This convergence research was conducted to understand the effect of university students' addiction to smartphones on self-esteem and self-efficacy, with stress level and mental health as the parameters. The subjects were students from three universities located in J province, and 303 questionnaires were used as the data for analysis. The data were analyzed with Pearson's correlation, multiple regression and pathway analysis by SPSS and AMOS. As a result, addiction to smartphones showed negative (-) correlation with self-esteem, self-efficacy, and mental health, while showing positive (+) correlation with stress level. In addition, the addiction to smartphones has an influence on self-esteem and self-efficacy with stress level and mental health as the parameters. Therefore, in order to improve the self-esteem and self-efficacy of university students, programs should be developed to prevent and manage addiction to smartphones, relieve stress and promote mental health.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.315-323
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• 2017

This convergence research was conducted to understand the effect of university students' addiction to smartphones on self-efficacy, with lack of sleep and interpersonal relationships as the parameters. The subjects were students from three universities located in J province, and 263 questionnaires were used as the data for analysis. SPSS and AMOS were used for correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and path analysis. As a result, addiction to smartphones showed positive (+) correlation with lack of sleep, and negative (-) correlation with interpersonal relationships and sell-efficacy. In addition, the addiction to smartphones has an influence on self-efficacy with lack of sleep and interpersonal relationships as the parameters. Therefore, in order to increase the self-efficacy of unversity students, plans and measures should be prepared to manage and prevent addiction to smartphones and lack of sleep, and to improve interpersonal relationships.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.202-211
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• 2019

This study was conducted to identify the correlation between smartphone addiction, sleep quality, and depression in college students. The participants were 304 college students in G area. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires and data were analyzed by frequency, percent, mean, standard deviation, t-test, One way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between smartphone addiction and sleep quality, a significant positive correlation between smart addiction and depression, and a significant negative correlation between sleep quality and depression. Therefore, the results of this study can be used as a useful basic data when looking for education and program development strategies to improve and prevent smartphone addiction, sleep quality, and depression of college students. In addition, it is required to apply a systematic educational program considering this.