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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.3.1632

Factors Affecting Smartphone Addiction among University Students  

Cho, Gyoo-Yeong (Department of Nursing, Pukyong National University)
Kim, Yun-Hee (Department of Nursing, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.3, 2014 , pp. 1632-1640 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting smartphone addiction of university students and to provide the data for developing intervention program of smartphone addiction prevention. The data were collected from 354 university students and analyzed with t-test and multiple regression by using SPSS 18.0 program. The smartphone addiction rate was 27.4%, which the high risk group rate was 6.2% and potential risk group rate was 21.2%. The significant factors of smartphone addiction were gender(${\beta}=0.149$, p<.001), average daily using time in week(${\beta}=0.292$, p=.001), average daily using time in weekend(${\beta}=0.390$, p<.001), wrist pain in using smartphone(${\beta}=0.148$, p<.001), accident in using smartphone(${\beta}=0.133$, p=.002), sociality(${\beta}=-0.099$, p=.029), impulsiveness(${\beta}=0.211$, p<.001), SNS addiction(${\beta}=0.376$, p<.001). And these factors explained 43.3% of the variance in smartphone addiction. In conclusion, the results from this study indicated a need to develop the intervention program to prevent smartphone addiction considering these factors affecting smartphone addiction.
Keywords
Smartphone addiction; Ego-resilience; Sociality; Impulsiveness; SNS addiction;
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