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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2018.16.12.383

Subjective Health Status, Mental Health and Internet Addiction Tendency of Adolescents in Multi-cultural Families Compared to General Families  

Chae, Myung-Ock (Department of Nursing, Cheongju University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.16, no.12, 2018 , pp. 383-393 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine impact of multi-cultural family on subjective health status, mental health and internet addiction tendency compared to general family in Korean adolescent. The data were derived from the 13th Korea youth risk behavior web-based survey 2017 in Korea and analyzed considering complex samples analysis. The subjects were general families 61,320(98.5%) and multi-cultural families 956(1.5%). Multi-cultural youth had higher rates of unhealthy and unhappy and the percentage of depression, suicidal ideation, weekday and weekend smartphone overdependence, experience problems with using smartphone in friend than general youth. In addition, suicidal ideation 1.270 times, weekday and weekend smartphone overdependence 1.359 times and 1.297 times respectively and experience problems with using smartphone in friend 1.603 times was increased in multi-cultural youth compared to general youth. Therefore, it is very meaningful that this study provided basic data of intervention program to improve mental health and internet addiction tendency of multi-cultural youth.
Keywords
Adolescent; Subjective health status; Mental health; Internet addiction; Multi-cultural families;
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