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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2013.14.3.1283

Relationships between Health Behaviors, Mental Health and Internet Addiction by Gender Differences among Korean Adolescents  

Park, Min Hee (Department of Nursing, Wonkwang University)
Jeon, Hae Ok (Department of Nursing, Cheongju University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.14, no.3, 2013 , pp. 1283-1293 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the health behaviors, mental health and internet addiction by gender differences among Korean adolescents and to examine relevances between health behaviors, mental health and internet addiction. The subjects were 73,238 Korean adolescents(male: 38,391, female: 34,847) who were recruited through national web-based survey. The data were derived from the Sixth Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey 2010 in South Korea. There were significant differences in health behaviors, mental health and internet addiction. by gender differences. Prevalence of internet addiction was male: 3.9%, female: 1.9% in this study. As the result of multiple logistic regression, the risk of internet addiction was increased in the case of smoking experience, substance experience, subjective health status, feeling of stress, depression experience, suicidal ideation, feeling of happiness, and sufficiency of sleeps in both male and female. Therefore, to decrease internet addiction prevalence, it is necessary to detect and manage the influencing risk factors of internet addiction such as health behaviors and mental health. And the health-promotion intervention to improve the internet addiction of adolescents should be planed and provided considering such differences by gender differences.
Keywords
Health Behavior; Mental Health; Internet; Addictive-behavior; Adolescent;
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