• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2014

Smartphone addiction and internet addiction cause a serious negative social problem due to the spread of the new media which is combined with the ubiquitous function. To evaluate the degree of Internet addiction and smartphone addiction of college students in the nearby areas, K-scale of internet addiction self-diagnosis scale and S-scale of smartphone addiction self-diagnosis scale for Korean adults were applied. This study aims to develop the survey questions, which get the basic internet patterns and access the web site, and to find the hidden addicts that is not found by general K-scale and S-scale using computers and smartphones. The result shows that a method of addiction diagnosis using the tolerance degree which is calculated by smart phone's internet main activities and using time(anticipated and real time) apart from K-scale and S-scale. So hidden internet and smartphone addicts could be found through the SPSS statistical analysis program.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.305-317
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine sociological characteristics, internet and smartphone use characteristics of adults with Internet Addiction, so that the results will be used for the identification of the adult internet addicts, the planning and performing of prevention, counseling of adult internet addicts. This study is explorative study in order to find a sociological profile of adults with internet addiction. Using the data of survey on internet addiction 4787 adults in the age of 20~39 who used internet at least one time within a week were analysed. The results of this study showed that there were significant differences in sociological characteristics like in gender, age, education, occupation as well as in internet use characteristics like spending hours on internet use, the first year of internet use etc. Thirdly, the addict group reported that internet use hour increased due to smartphone usage, and that they overused SNS. Finally, implications and suggestions for further studies are discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.175-185
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• 2017

This study examines the mediating effects of learned helplessness and procrastination in the relationship between social-psychological stress and internet${\cdot}$smartphone addiction among adults. The study subjects were 231 adults (114 males and 117 females) with a mean age of 27.7(SD=6.6) years. The results of the study are as follows. First, stress and internet${\cdot}$smartphone addiction had a significant positive correlation. Second, the mediating effect of learned helplessness in the relationship between stress and internet addiction was significant. Third, the mediating effect of learned helplessness through procrastination in the relationship between stress and internet addiction was significant. Forth, the mediating effect of learned helplessness in the relationship between stress and smartphone addiction was significant. Fifth, the mediating effect of learned helplessness through procrastination in the relationship between stress and smartphone addiction was significant. Based on the results of this study, we discussed the role of helplessness and procrastination in the relationship between stress and internet addiction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.375-383
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to verify the moderating effect of self-esteem between emotional trauma and internet smart phone addiction of adolescents. For this purpose, this study confirmed moderating effect by setting emotional trauma as predicting variable, self-esteem as moderating variable and internet smart phone addiction as dependent variable. The study conducted a questionnaire survey on 645 middle school students regarding emotional trauma, self-esteem and internet smart phone addiction. The results of this study are as follows; first, emotional trauma had negative correlation with self-esteem and positive correlation with internet smart phone addiction. Self-esteem had negative correlation with internet smart phone addiction. Second, as the result of hierarchical regression analysis, there was an interaction effect of emotional trauma and self-esteem on internet smart phone addiction. The meaning of this study are as follows; first, it is proved that one of the causes of internet smart phone addiction is adolescent's emotional trauma and, second, it is proved that the intervention of self-esteem is required to reduce the negative effect of adolescent's emotional trauma. That is, it turned out that self-esteem moderated the relationship between emotional trauma and internet smart phone addiction.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.655-665
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• 2016

This research was conducted to verify the relationships among clinical scale of MMPI-2, Internet Addiction, and Smartphone Addiction. Participants were 190 college students(male: 95, female: 95) in an university in Seoul. Data were processed SPSS 22.0, using ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and logistic regression analysis. As a result of analysis, first, MMPI-2 clinical scales which showed significant differences between a higher risk group of internet addiction and a non-higher risk group as follows: Hs, D, Pd, Pt, Sc, Si. Second, MMPI-2 clinical scales which showed significant differences between a higher risk group of smartphone addiction and a non-higher risk group as follows: Hs, Pa, Pt, Sc. Third, Logistic regression analysis revealed that Hs and Si among clinical scales of MMPI-2 were associated with internet addiction. Firth, Hs and Si among clinical scales of MMPI-2 were associated with smartphone addiction. Based on the results some implications and importances of mental health are discussed for reducing internet and smartphone addiction of college students.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.99-110
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• 2023

This study analyzed 817 articles published in Korean professional journals over the past three years, from 2020 to 2022, using text mining techniques to identify trends in addiction research in Korea and explore development directions. The analysis results are as follows. First, as a result of the analysis of the top keywords, online addiction studies such as smartphones, games, Internet, gambling, and relationship addiction were prominent as the top keywords. Second, as a result of TF-IDF analysis, many addiction studies related to behavioral addiction such as smartphones, games, the Internet, and work addiction have been conducted over the past three years, and in particular, there are many studies on addiction problems such as smartphones, games, and the Internet that have not yet been clinically diagnosed as addiction problems. This is the same as the result of word frequency analysis, and it can be interpreted that recent studies have been remarkably conducted on more diverse addiction problems. Third, the 2-gram analysis shows that words that mainly correspond to behavioral addiction, such as smartphones, games, and the Internet, appear side by side with the keyword addiction, and among them, words paired with smartphones are mentioned a lot in research papers and are being studied. Fourth, as a result of the CONCOR analysis, there were five clusters: a study on universal addiction issues such as alcohol use disorders and the Internet, a study of recovery on drug and gambling addiction, a study on mobile devices and media addiction, a study on the latest trends related to behavioral addiction, and other addiction issues. Finally, based on the results of this study, a direction for future addiction-related research was suggested.

• 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.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.36-46
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• 2015

This study verified theoretical model to explain adolescents' addictive use of smartphone. I used the data of 679 middle and high school students among 2013 internet addiction survey of National Information Society Agency(NIA). This study utilized structural equation modeling analysis to compare a suggestive model and alternative model. According to the final model, higher the satisfaction of family relationship, the addictive use of smartphone and emotional problems of adolescents were reduced. And, higher the addictive use of smartphone, higher the emotional problems of adolescents. Also, family relationship affects emotional problems via addictive use of smartphone. While, in the alternative model, path from amount of smartphone use to addictive use of smartphone was not significant. Results of this study suggest that family relationship variable may play an antecedent factor of addictive use of smartphone and emotional problems of adolescents and control of smartphone use is important to keeping a mental health of adolescents.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.287-296
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to deeply understand the causes of addiction of the addicted adolescents of smartphone. Colaizzi's phenomenological study method was applied to analyze the causes of the addiction caused by the addicts'. The results of the study were confirmed 63 constructive meanings in the meaningful data expressed in the participants' experiences, Based on them, they were derived as 26 subjects, 8 subject groups and 2 categories. The causes of addiction were 'Personal psychological factor', 'Behavior habit factor', 'Social relation factor' and 'Internet smart phone factor'. Psychological, physical, interpersonal and everyday life changes were the results accompanied by causes of addiction. Through this study, the causes of addiction revealed in the participants' experiences are expected to be applied to the client-centered therapy of the smartphone addiction counseling process.

• 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.