• 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.