• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.185-194
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• 2022

This study tried to understand the mediating role of stress perception and the moderating role of mindfulness in the process of psychological alienation affecting college students' smartphone addiction tendency. Two hundred seventeen university students from Chungcheongnam-do answered the questionnaire. The research model was analyzed with model 7 of Hayes' PROCESS Macro 4.0. When synthesizing analysis results, feelings of alienation mediate stress responses or directly influence smartphone addiction tendencies. At this time, people with high levels of mindfulness tended to lower their smartphone addiction tendencies by alleviating their stress response compared to those with a low level of mindfulness. The implication of this study is that it revealed the psychological process that causes alienation to induce smartphone addiction tendency through stress responses, and that mindfulness plays a role in alleviating stress response and lowering smartphone addiction tendency. In the future, it is necessary to apply the model of this study to people diagnosed with smartphone addiction.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.353-361
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• 2020

This study examined the effects of pre-service early childhood teacher's adult-attachment, mental-health and resilience on smartphone addiction tendency. The participants were 283 pre-service early childhood teachers in Seoul and Kyungkido. Collected self-report data were analyzed by correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The results were as follows. First, there were 228 people (81 percent) in the regular user group and 55 people(19 percent) in the risk user group. Second, there were significant differences in adult-attachment, mental-health and resilience according to smartphone addiction tendency. Third, anxiety(adult-attachment) and mental-health had a positive correlation, and control and affirmation(resilience) had a negative correlation with pre-service early childhood teachers' smartphone addiction tendency. Fourth, all variables influenced pre-service early childhood teachers' smartphone addiction tendency. This study provides practical suggestions for smartphone usage and preventive measures for pre-service early childhood teachers' smartphone addiction.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.139-146
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to confirm the relationship between the subjective symptoms of smartphone addiction and visual display terminal syndrome in nursing college students and learning flow in the COVID-19 pandemic. For the collection of materials, the materials of the final 134 people were analyzed by collecting the students at the nursing colleges located in S city and M city for convenience. The collected materials were subjected to descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation coefficients using the SPSS / WIN 26 program. As a result of this study, the learning flow of nursing college students was negative correlated to the tendency of smartphone addiction and the subjective symptoms of visual display terminal syndrome. Therefore, to improve the learning flow of nursing college students, it is necessary to reduce the symptoms of smartphone addictive use and visual display terminal syndrome. The need for intervention and development of various effective programs for smart phone addiction management and display terminal syndrome management was suggested.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.221-235
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• 2020

This study identified the latent groups according to smartphone addiction tendency and examined the factors affecting the latent group identification. The best-fitting LCA solution had three classes. The first group was 'non-academic stressed group, immersed in smartphone' It was characterized low scores on academic stress and average scores on smartphone addiction tendency. The second group was 'medium level academic stressed group, immersed in smartphone' which scored slightly above average in academic stress and smartphone addiction tendency. The third group was 'medium level academic stressed group, non-immersed in smartphone'. It showed higher scores than average in academic stress, but students with far lower scores in smartphone addiction tendency. Logistic analysis result showed that gender and grade were significant. This study is meaningful in analyzing academic related variable(academic stress) and mental health related variable(smartphone addiction tendency) to classify the groups according to patterns between the two variables and suggest appropriate intervention for each group in a convergence way.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.429-437
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate physical activity level, sleep quality, attention control, and self-regulated learning along to smartphone addiction level among college students. The data were obtained from 269 college students by structured questionnaire, analyzed using SPSS 18.0. The results showed that significant differences with smartphone addictoin level and, gender, grade level, daily using time, physical activity level, sleep quality and attention control. Smartphone addictoin level have correlations with physical activity level, sleep quality, attention control, and self-regulated learning. To prevent the falling off of physical strength and poor school performance, it is needed a strategies for control of smartphone addiction.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.300-310
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not loneliness affects the relationship between parental psychological control and SNS addiction tendency as well as smartphone game addiction in male and female middle-school students. The subjects were 259 male and female adolescents enrolled in A region Province (134 male and 125 female students). The results are as follows. First, the relationship between loneliness and SNS poisoning tendency was positively correlated with loneliness and SNS poisoning tendency in males, whereas there was no significant correlation in females. In addition, the relationship between parental psychological control and smartphone game addiction was positively correlated with psychological control by parents and smartphone game addiction in female students, whereas there was no significant correlation in males. Second, the relationship between parents' psychological control and SNS addiction depending on the level of loneliness did not significantly change between both male and female middle-school students. Third, as a result of examining the relationship between parental psychological control and smartphone game addiction in male and female middle-school students according to degree of loneliness, only male students showed a moderating effect. Finally, the limitations of this study and suggestions for follow-up studies were discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1207-1215
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• 2015

The smartphone addiction research to identify the pattern according to your smartphone addiction. Recovery of 689 to 1429 parts by distributing the total recovery is 48.22%, respectively. Were utilized to study 650 data. Smartphone addiction group was divided into low, group care, group into three groups according to the degree of severity smartphone addiction. The response that smartphone addiction severity group 135 people 86.5%, lower addiction group 59 people% smartphone smartphones note 165 people group 50.2%, 35.5 'no' do you think about the own smartphone addiction (p <0.001). Showed that exceeds 50% of the smartphone severe poisoning group and attention should use having a chat group with respect to the smart phone. Also showed that beyond a midnight bed time group the more severe the smartphone addiction. Usual findings for bedtime showed a tendency to sleep late pass midnight smartphone addiction show higher water shortage phenomenon. Could be used as the basis for the study which may be a healthy life to predict the degree of occurrence of a pattern according to the type of smart phone poisoning by identifying the factors of the individual according to the degree of poisoning smartphone pattern.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.398-408
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effects of difficult in emotional regulation and perceived social support on the relationship between adult ADHD tendency and smartphone addiction. For this study, Data were collected from 348 adults in 20s to 30s who live in Seoul, Gyeong-Gi Provinces. The SPSS 21.0 program was used to analyze the statistical data. The data was analyzed by structural equation modeling test mediating effects with AMOS and Mplus.. The results of the analysis were as follows: First adult ADHD tendency was positively correlated with difficulties in emotional regulation and smart phone addiction, while perceived social support was negatively correlated with those variables. Second difficulties in emotional regulation was partially mediated adult ADHD tendency and perceive social support. Third difficulties in emotional regulation and perceived social support had a dual mediating effect on adult ADHD tendency and smartphone addiction. These results reiterate the difficulties in emotional regulation is a determinant for the influence of adult ADHD on smartphone addiction, and suggest that smartphone addiction as an avoidant alternative activity could be reduced by overcoming the difficulties in emotional regulation and promoting the perceived social supports. Finally, some limitations of this study and suggestions for further researches were discussed.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.23-31
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to examine if educational programs to intervene with smartphone addiction developed for elementary school students are effective in reducing their smartphone overuse that has been rapidly increasing nowadays. To attain the goal, the study analyzes internet addiction intervention programs previously developed with the cognitive behavior therapy of which effectiveness has been verified in psychotherapy for those showing addiction, and based on that, it develops and applies educational programs to intervene with smartphone addiction. The conclusions the paper has drawn are as follows: First, educational programs to intervene with smartphone addiction are effective in reducing the tendencies of smartphone addiction of those students using smartphones too much for their irrational thinking or habitual behavior. Second, educational programs to intervene with smartphone addiction will facilitate behavioral changes regarding negative factors of smartphone addiction such as maladaptation in everyday life or tolerance and also help the reconstruction of elementary school students' positive cognition on smartphone use.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.11
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• pp.22-27
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• 2019

Along with the universalization of smartphones, smartphone addiction is becoming a physical and mental social problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relevance of the problems caused by addiction in 300 adolescents, adults and the elderly. The results showed that the use of SNS and messenger were most related to the negative factors such as health problems, depression, antisocial, schizophrenia, lower self-esteem, and lower social expectation. In addition, games and videos were analyzed to have relatively low negative problems. Focusing on the high addiction rate, the researcher further analyzed the preference for problem solution and discussed the improvement measures for smartphone addiction reduction.