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Exploring psychosocial factors that influence smartphone dependency among Korean adolescents.
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- The relationship between smartphone addiction and aggression among Lebanese adolescents: the indirect effect of cognitive function.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- The Relationship Between Types of Smartphone Use, Digital Literacy, and Smartphone Addiction in the Elderly.Psychiatry investigation · 2022Article
- The Role of Motivation Systems, Anxiety, and Low Self-Control in Smartphone Addiction among Smartphone-Based Social Networking Service (SNS) Users.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- How bad is the mere presence of a phone? A replication of Przybylski and Weinstein (2013) and an extension to creativity.PloS one · 2021Article
- Intergenerational Transmissions of Mother-Adolescent Smartphone Dependency: The Mediating Role of Negative Parenting and the Moderating Role of Gender.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study investigated the relationships among psychosocial factors that contribute to smartphone dependency among South Korean adolescents. This cross-sectional study involved the secondary data analysis of the 2016 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey, a nationwide multistage cluster survey. Data were collected from 1,840 7th grade students in South Korea and analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and a path analysis using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 23.0. The path analysis showed that self-esteem and aggressiveness directly influenced smartphone dependency, while affective parenting attitude, peer attachment, resilience, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms indirectly influenced it. The explanatory variables accounted for 18.3% of the total variance. In conclusion, parents' education on positive parenting and guidance concerning adolescents' smartphone use is necessary to reduce adolescents' smartphone dependency. It may also prove effective to promote adolescents' interpersonal skills and self-esteem to foster positive peer relationships and self-control concerning smartphone use.
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