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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2014.12.4.409

A Study on Smartphone Addiction, Mental health and Impulsiveness For High School Students at Korea  

Yu, Myeong-Ok (Kangwon National University)
Ju, Se-Jin (Namseoul University, Department of Nursing)
Kim, Joo Hyun (Kangwon National University, Department of Nursing)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.12, no.4, 2014 , pp. 409-418 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between the smartphone addiction proneness, mental health, and impulsiveness of high school students in Korea. 804 first and second year high school students participated in the survey that included the Smartphone addiction scale, Korean Brief Mental Diagnosis Exam - the highest 25% of total score (Addictive SmartPhone Use Group : ASPUG 213 persons), the lowest 25% of total score(Non-Addictive SmartPhone Use Group : NASPUG 204 persons), BIS-II Impulsiveness Scale and additional questions asking for demographical characteristics. The outcomes of this study were as follows. First, sex, grade of high school, academic accomplishment, student's satisfaction with school life, monthly allowance, the level of parental respect, having a opposite sex friend were related to smartphone addiction and impulsiveness. Second, ASPUG had worse mental health and impulsiveness than NASPUG, and the difference was statistically significant. Third, Students showed higher levels of mental health 9 subareas - anxiety, depression, phobic anxiety, Somatization, obsessive compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, Paranoid ideation, Psychosis as their smartphone use increased.
Keywords
smartphone; addiction; mental health; impulsiveness;
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