• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2009

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the degree of internet addiction and factors affecting internet addiction in elementary school students. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was employed in this study. The subjects were 378 students who were recruited from 5th and 6th grade in five elementary schools in J city, Korea. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using the SPSS Win 10.1 program. Results: Of the children, 51.9% reported being average online users, 45.5%, heavy online users, and 2.6%, internet addicted. The level of internet addiction of subjects correlated significantly with the behavioral activation system, behavioral inhibition system, family cohesion, and learned self-concept, but not family adaptability. Significant predictors influencing internet addiction were the behavioral activation system, learned self-concept, and family cohesion. These predictors accounted for 22% of variance in internet addiction. Conclusion: This study found that the behavioral activation system in personality aspects, family cohesion in the family system, and learned self-concept are primary factors that explain internet addiction among elementary students. We suggest these results be used to develop an online addiction prevention or treatment program.

• 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.45-56
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• 2004

최근 인터넷 사용이 확산되면서 그 역기능에 대한 우려가 커지고 있다. 특히 인터넷 중독이 주요 이슈로 다루어지며, 인터넷 사용자의 연령층이 낮아지면서 인터넷 중독에 대한 우려는 초등학생에게까지 미치게 되었다. 그러나 인터넷 중독 관련 연구는 중 고등학생들을 대상으로 하여서는 상당수 이루어졌으나, 초등학생들을 대상으로 한 연구는 매우 미흡하게 이루어졌다. 또한 우리나라의 현실에 맞고, 초 중등학생들을 대상으로 사용이 가능하며, 표준화와 타당화 과정을 거친 신뢰로운 검사 도구의 사용이 절실히 필요하다. 이에 본 연구는 그와 같은 필요를 고려하여 개발된 인터넷 중독 검사 도구를 사용하여, 전국의 5, 6학년 1,382명의 학생들을 대상으로 인터넷 중독의 현황과 그 원인이 되는 요소들을 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 조사 대상의 5.5%에 해당하는 학생들이 고위험사용자군으로 분류되었고 12.4%의 학생들이 잠재적위험사용자군으로 분류되었다. 또한, 학생들의 인터넷 중독 수준은 성, 학년 등과 같은 '인구학적 요인', 사용 시간, 목적 등과 같은 '인터넷 사용 경험', 가족 형태, 관계 만족도 등과 같은 '가족 관련 특성', 친구관계, 학교생활과 같은 '사회적 활동' 등의 4가지 영역의 15가지 변수들에 대해서 유의미한 차이가 있음이 발견되었다.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.337-346
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• 2018

본 연구는 정신의료기관에 방문하여 치료를 받고 있는 인터넷 중독 임상군의 심리사회적 특성과 인터넷 중독과 관련된 영향요인을 규명하기 위해 2차 분석을 실시한 서술적 조사 연구이다. 연구대상자는 일 정신의료기관에 인터넷 중독으로 진단 및 치료를 받은 63명으로 전자의무기록을 확인하여 자료를 수집하였다. 전자의무기록에는 인터넷 중독 정도, 불안, 우울, 충동성, 주의력결핍과잉행동장애 정도, 사회연결망 정도를 측정하는 척도가 포함되어 있어 이를 이용하였다. 연구결과, 인터넷 중독 정도는 하루 인터넷 사용시간, 불안, 충동성, 주의력결핍과잉행동장애 증상과 유의한 상관관계가 있었으며, 인터넷 중독 정도의 영향요인은 주의력결핍과잉행동 증상, 하루 인터넷 사용시간, 충동성으로 나타났고, 총 설명력은 44%이었다. 본 연구 결과를 토대로 인터넷 중독 임상군이 겪고 있는 심리사회적 어려움을 치료에 반영하고, 주의력결핍과잉 행동장애 임상군에게 적절한 인터넷 사용 교육이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2008

Objectives : Internet addiction or pathologic internet use is one of the major mental health problems in children and adolescents in Korea. Internet addiction is defined as uncontrollable, markedly time-consuming internet use, which lasts for a period of at least six months. Internet addiction results in poor academic performance and negative parent-child relationships. By using $^{18}F$-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), we investigated the effects of internet addiction on functional changes occurring in the adolescent brain. Methods : Adolescent patients with an internet addiction (4 boys and 2 girls; $15.6{\pm}1.2$ years) participated in this study. Eight healthy young adults (5 males and 3 females; 18-30 years old) with no previous history of psychiatric illness also participated as normal controls. Brain FDG-PET data was obtained with the participants in the resting condition and with no addictive stimuli. Results : Statistic parametric mapping analysis of the brain FDG-PET data revealed hypometabolic changes in the visual information processing circuits and hypermetabolic changes in the prefrontal areas in the adolescents with internet addiction, as compared with normal controls (p<.001). Conclusion : These results suggest a neuronal adaptation to excessive visual stimulation and synaptic plasticity due to internet addiction.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.376-383
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• 2003

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of internet addiction, internet expectancy, and self-efficacy in elementary school students. Method: The study was carried out during the period from June 16 to July 12, 2003. The subjects in the study were 397 elementary students attending four elementary schools in Chungcheongbuk-do and Kyunggi-do. Self-rating questionnaire included general characteristics, internet addiction scale, internet expectancy scale, and self-efficacy scale. Data was analyzed using SPSS/WIN10.0 by unpaired t-test and Pearson corelation coefficient. Result: In this study, the mean score of internet addiction was 20.7. Internet dangerous group was 12.6% and internet addicticted group was 0.3%. The score of internet addiction was significantly different according to parents' concern, aversion to school life and extracurricular lecture. The mean score of internet expectancy was 27.1. The score of Internet expectancy was significantly different according to popularity among friends and easiness of making friends. The mean score of self-efficacy was 55.8. The score of self-efficacy was significantly different according to conversation with parents, enforcement of parents on learning, aversion to school life, aversion to extracurricular lecture, existence of intimate friend, popularity among friends(p=.000), and easiness of making friends. Conclusion: This study showed that prevalence of internet addiction was much lower than expected, but the score of internet addiction and internet expectancy can be different according to parents' concern and relationship with friends. Therefore parents must be concerned about their children and their school lives to prevent internet addiction.

• 한국학교보건학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.97-110
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between internet addiction and mental health of 5-6th grade students in elementary schools and to provide some basic data to develop a program for prevention and treatment of internet addiction. The study is the research of the descriptive correlation and the subjects of the study were 643 students from 5th and 6th year children of four elementary schools in four districts which are located in G city. The data were analyzed by SAS program with frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, x2-test, ANOVA and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. The results were as follows: 1. In the demographic characteristics of the subjects, the boys were 50.5%, girls 49.5% and 5th grade students were 48.4%, 6th grade 51.6%. The purposes of the internet using were e-mail 40.3%, game 37.5%. 2. In the degree of the internet addiction were 4.5% of addiction, 38.7% of addiction tendency and 56.8% of non-addiction. 3. The score range of the degree of the mental health index of the subjects' were 26-28, mean 47.8. 4. There were significant differences in mental health index(F=34.01, p= .000) to the degree of the internet addiction. 5. There were significant negative correlation between the degree of internet addiction and the mertal health index(r=0.342, p= .000). The result of the study showed the students who are in high-grade in elementary school have already addicted to using of the internet as much as the youth and the more they addicted to the internet, the lower mental health index they have. According to increasing of the using internet among the elementary school students, the internet addiction of them have increased. Therefore, it is necessary to develope a program for prevention and treatment of the internet addiction.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.421-434
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of parental self-esteem on late school-aged children's media device addiction by mediating marital conflict and children's self-esteem. Methods: This study used data from the 11th (2018) Panel Study on Korean Children. The participants consisted of 1,082 family triads (fathers, mothers, and children). Data were collected using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Marital Conflict Scale, and K-Internet Addiction Scale. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling with SPSS/WIN 27.0 and Mplus 8.7. Results: The final model showed a good fit for the data. Children's media device addiction was directly related to mothers' self-esteem, mothers' marital conflict, and children's self-esteem. Fathers' self-esteem had a significant indirect effect on children's media device addiction by mediating both fathers' and mothers' marital conflict. In addition, mothers' self-esteem had a significant indirect effect on children's media device addiction by mediating mothers' marital conflict. Conclusion: The findings indicates that self-esteem and marital conflict for both fathers and mothers have a significant effect on children's media device addiction. It suggests that more attention might be given to fathers and mothers in developing interventions to prevent children's media device addiction.

• 한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.65-80
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• 2008

Objectives: To identify the relationship between the internet addition of elementary school students, and their health behavior and VDT syndrome, and thereby to detect the impact of internet addiction on the health behavior of elementary school students, to get the basic information necessary to develop a prevention program for internet addiction and to plan for VDT syndrome prevention program. Methods: We conducted this study during the period from jun 27, 2007 through July 8, 2007. The subjects of this study were 416 children whose grades were in 4th through 6th grades of elementary schools located in the city A in Kyung Pook Providence. Data were obtained from self-rating questionnaires. The questionnaires were composed of Korean Internet Addiction Self-examination on Internet Use Patterns (K-scale), Health Behavior Profile, VDT Syndrome, and general characteristics. We used t-test, AVOVA with Ducan method for Post-hoc comparison in means comparison between groups, $X^2$-test for frequency analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficient. We used SPSS/PC(12.0 ver) program and the LISREL 8.53 Win program for covariance structural analysis. Results: Major results were as follows. 1. The internet addiction propensity distribution based on the distribution of scores were investigated according to the self diagnosis scale on internet addiction. 6.5% of them were high risk user group, 14.4% were potential risk users and 79.1% of them were common user groups. 2. Internet addictions by sex, internet use duration, frequency (days/week), time(hours/day), purpose, position, brightness of internet, attitude of parents and frequency of conversation of family members were statistically significant(p<0.01). 3. There was a statistically significant difference in VDT syndrome according to internet addiction groups(p<0.001) besides ocular symptoms, dry mouth and GI troubles. 4. The health behavior score was the lowest in high risk user group(p<0.001). There were significant differences between internet addiction groups in personal hygiene and habits of daily living(p<.002), the prevention of accidents(p<.002), the practice concerned with the prevention of infectious disease(p=.002), and mental health(p<.001). 5. There was also a significant negative correlation between internal addiction and health profile(r=-0.365, p<0.01) and a significant positive correlation between internal addiction and VDT syndrome(r=0.331, p<0.01). 6. As the result of structural model analysis, internet use time(/day), days of internet use(/1week), conversation frequency among family members, degree of brightness of internet use had significant direct effects on internet addiction. Conclusions: The results will help the development of an effective intervention program for the prevention and treatment of internal addiction by clarifying the effect of the internal addiction upon elementary school students' VDT syndrome and health behavior.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2005

Objectives: This study was conducted to identify the computer game usage of elementary school children and their needs for education on the prevention of computer game addiction. Methods: The subjects of this study were 455 elementary school children. The data were collected from an open and structured questionnaire on the subjects' computer game usage and their needs for education on the prevention of computer game addiction. Results: The boys played computer games more than the girls. There were statistical differences in the durations of the computer game use, the main locations of the computer games they played, the times of the day when they used computers, the times of the day when they played computer games, the number of times in a week they visited Internet cafes, what motivated them to play computer games, and their partners in playing computer games according to gender. From an analysis of 714 statements of the subjects with respect to their need to be educated on computer game addiction prevention, six domains and 19 themes were drawn. The six main domains identified were Definition & Status, Etiology & Process, Influences, Prevention, Diagnosis & Coping with Computer Game Addiction, and General Information on Computer Games. This study results revealed that elementary school children have to be comprehensively educated on how to prevent computer game addiction. Conclusion: A computer game addiction prevention program concerning these themes and domains must be developed. A study should also be conducted to identify the educational needs of parents of elementary school children on computer game addiction prevention.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.358-369
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• 2015

본 연구는 초등학교 고학년 학생의 음주 및 흡연 경험, 인터넷 중독 정도를 파악하고, 이에 영향을 미치는 요인을 규명하기 위한 조사연구로, 경기도 G시 소재 3개 초등학교에 재학 중인 5, 6학년 학생 1,061명을 대상으로 시행되었다. 연구결과 초등학생의 음주 및 흡연 경험, 인터넷 중독은 각각 22,7%, 2.9%, 4.2%이었다. 음주 및 흡연 경험, 인터넷 중독에 공통적인 영향 요인으로 성별과 공격성이 가장 중요한 요인이었으며, 음주경험은 친구지지와 가족지지, 흡연경험은 학년, 인터넷 중독은 친구지지와 교사지지가 영향 요인이었다. 즉, 남학생이고, 공격성이 높을수록 음주 및 흡연경험, 인터넷 중독 위험은 높았으며, 친구지지가 높을수록 음주경험 위험은 높고, 가족지지가 높을수록 음주경험의 위험은 낮았으며, 5학년에서 흡연경험의 위험이 높고, 친구지지, 교사지지가 높을수록 인터넷 중독의 위험은 낮았다. 결론적으로 초등학생의 음주 및 흡연 시작, 인터넷 중독을 예방하기 위해서는 남학생에 초점을 두고, 공격성 조절과 친구, 가족 등의 사회적 지지를 강화하는 중재 전략이 필요하다.