Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)

The Society of Digital Policy and Management (한국디지털정책학회)
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Effect of teenager media usage control in the era of media convergence

미디어 융합 시대에 청소년 미디어 이용 통제의 효과

  • Lee, Hwan-Soo (Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in IT Law, Dankook University)
  • 이환수 (단국대학교 IT법학협동과정)
  • Received : 2015.05.26
  • Accepted : 2015.07.20
  • Published : 2015.07.28
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Abstract

The media addiction of teenagers became a social problem in the era of media convergence. With the national efforts, parents has limited their children's media usage for proper parenting. However, current media environment where personalized media devices such as smartphone and tablet PC are common raises questions about whether the problems of media addiction can be solved with previous approaches. Thus, this study examines how the parental controls to teens' media usage affect their media usage and emotions. According to the results that analyzed 884 teens' responses, the parental controls did not affect their usage. On the other hand, it was appeared that excessive parental controls stimulated to teens' negative emotions. These results show that parental controls are not longer effective in current media environment, which implies that new efforts from their family or government are required in order to prevent teens' media addiction.

미디어 융합 시대에 청소년들의 미디어 중독은 심각한 사회문제가 되기 시작하였고, 부모들은 올바른 자녀 양육을 위해 자녀들의 TV나 인터넷 사용을 제한하거나, 국가차원에서 다양한 정책 및 법률 등이 추진되어 왔다. 그러나 스마트폰이나 태블릿 PC 등 개인화된 미디어 장비가 보편화된 최근의 미디어 환경은 심화되는 중독 현상을 기존의 방법으로 과연 해결할 수 있는지에 대해 의문을 제기한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 가정 내 미디어에 통제가 청소년들의 미디어 이용 행태와 청소년들의 정서에 어떠한 영향을 미치고 있는지를 탐색적으로 살펴보았다. 884명의 10대 청소년들을 대상으로 분석을 수행한 결과 가정 내 미디어에 대한 통제 유무는 청소년들의 미디어 이용 시간에 유의한 영향을 미치지 않고 오히려 과도한 통제는 청소년들의 부정 정서 형성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구 결과는 최근 미디어 환경에서는 가정 내의 개별 미디어 이용 통제가 더 이상 효과적이지 않고 청소년들의 미디어 중독 예방을 위해 가정이나 국가 차원에서 새로운 노력이 필요함을 시사한다.

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