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An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Mobile Phone Dependency on Maritime Safety

  • Davy, James G.;Noh, Chang-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.51-52
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    • 2012
  • Safety at sea continues to be an important topic for research. The factors that contribute to safety issues are often complex and unclear. Lack of non-technical skills in such areas as communication, teamworking, situational awareness, decision making etc. are well documented as directly affecting safety in high risk work settings such as on board merchant vessels. Competence in non-technical skills can be affected by various habits and circumstances that influence a worker and result in either positive thinking and behaviour or negative thinking and behaviour. Negative thinking can cause stress, anger, frustration; loneliness etc. and this can possibly result in behaviour or actions that undermine the safety of crew and ship. Factors that may contribute to these negative thoughts and behaviours are many and varied and this paper will be looking at one aspect: mobile phone use. In the Republic of Korea, dependency on mobile phones is uniquely high. Maritime students are also susceptible to such dependency and this paper will demonstrate that the symptoms associated with mobile phone addiction and dependency, and in particular the symptoms of withdrawal, are important factors that need to be mitigated in order to improve safety at sea. Although the benefits of mobile phones are many it will be suggested that over-reliance, dependency or addiction can result in negative thinking or behaviour that may directly or indirectly contribute to the factors that cause incidents and accidents at sea. It will be suggested that the most appropriate method of dealing with this problem is twofold: firstly, through training at the educational level and secondly, by encouraging the shipping industry and government to invest more into providing seafarers with better access to the communication methods that they are used to on shore in order to improve work conditions.

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Differences in self-regulation motivation between social network service and gaming groups in the use of youth mobile phones

  • Seo, Gang Hun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.163-168
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    • 2020
  • In this paper we propose a The purpose of this study was to examine the psychological characteristics of youth mobile phone use. Internally, we want to find out about self-regulation, interpersonal relationship, pleasure, and desire to achieve reality. For the research, the Korea Information Society Agency utilized 568 data based on self-control and user motivation among long-term tracking data of Internet and mobile phone addiction in 2018. The SPSS window 23 version was used for data analysis, and the data collected were analyses to identify the subject's demographic characteristics. In addition, the correlation of variables between groups was investigated by analyzing dummy variables, and the results of the study were as follows. First, the addiction was slightly higher in mobile phone game groups than in social network service (SNS) groups, but in the same period of use, social network service (SNS) groups showed a higher desire for interpersonal relationships. In the desire to avoid reality, mobile phone game groups showed a higher gap than social network service (SNS) However, there was no difference between groups in terms of pleasure and desire to achieve. The results of this study indicated that the content of mobile phone use differed in factors affecting mobile phone overuse, and suggestions for follow-up research were discussed.

Relationships between Self-Control and Addictive Mobile Phone Use by Nursing Students (간호대학생의 자기통제력과 휴대폰 중독적 사용의 관계)

  • Kim, Mi Sook;Sohn, Sue Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.15 no.11
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    • pp.6719-6727
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    • 2014
  • This study examined the relationships between self-control and addictive mobile phone use among nursing students. The data was collected through structured questionnaires from 293 students and analyzed using a t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test and Pearson's correlation coefficients on SPSS WIN v 18.0 and AMOS v 18.0. The mean scores of self-control and addictive mobile phone use were $3.42{\pm}0.45$ and $2.69{\pm}0.45$, respectively. A statistically significant negative correlation was observed between self-control and addictive mobile phone use (t=-.447, p<.01). In addition, self-control explained 28% of the addictive mobile phone use. Intervention programs to improve self-control should be developed to prevent addictive mobile phone use for nursing students.

An Empirical Investigation on Factors Influencing SNS Addiction (SNS 중독에 영향을 미치는 영향 요인에 대한 실증적 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Uk;Park, Sang-Cheol;Jeon, Dae-Yong
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.179-185
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    • 2015
  • Along with the recent advances of mobile internet technology, use of social network service(SNS) is very common among adolescents or college students in their daily lives. Although there have been a lot of studies on Internet addiction or mobile phone addiction, however, there were little research on SNS addiction so far. Scholars investigated somewhat broader and obscure phenomenon of Internet addiction. In this regard, the current study tried to examine factors which influence SNS addiction behavior. Unlike Internet addiction, there are positive influencing factors such socialization, enjoyment as well as problematic ones like loneliness. Data were collected from college students in Korea to examine how those factors influence addiction behavior and hypotheses were tested using the partial least square method. All three factors, socialization, enjoyment, and loneliness, were found to significantly influence SNS addiction and socialization was positively associated with enjoyment.

Effects of Snoezelen Therapy on Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life of College Students with Game Addiction

  • Lim, Ji-Yun;Kim, Jong-Hoon;Lee, Seul-Mi;Jang, Woo-Hyuk
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: Despite the existence of Snoezelen method, there is no case of researching the effects on game addiction. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of Snoezelen therapy on stress, depression, anxiety and quality of life of college students who overuse computer games or mobile phone games. Methods: Eight students who responded to spend more than 30 hours of computer or mobile phone games in the selection questionnaire were recruited (The total respondents were 224 students). Students were randomly assigned to either the study group (4 students) or the control group (4 students). Stress (Korean version of Perceived Stress Scale, K-PSS), depression (Korean Screening Tool for Depression Disorders, K-DEP), Anxiety (Korean Beck Anxiety Inventory, K-BAI) and quality of life (Short Form Health Survey version 2 [SF-36]) were assessed three times (before intervention [pre], post-3 weeks [post 1], post-6 weeks [post 2]). Results: First, the study group (-4.75±3.86) and control group (1.00±2.71) showed significant difference (p<0.05) in the analysis of score changes between pre-test and test at 6 weeks (post 2) for K-DEP. Next, pre-test and test at 3 weeks of intervention (post 1) for K-BAI showed significant difference (p<0.05) in the study group (-2.50±1.91) and control group (2.25±2.99). In addition, pre-test and test at 6 weeks (post 2) showed significant difference (p<0.05) for the study group (-3.00±1.51) and control group (4.75±6.24). Conclusion: The study confirmed the possibility of Snoezelen therapy as a therapy method to induce effective responses in stress, depression, anxiety, and quality of life of college students with game addiction.

A Study on ways to secure personal information stability according to the implementation of the mobile phone use system for milityary personnel (군장병 휴대전화 사용제도 시행에 따른 개인정보 안정성 확보 방안 연구)

  • Hwangbo, Wongyu;Shin, Dong-Kyoo
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.49-58
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    • 2022
  • As military service members are fully permitted to use mobile phones for sickness after work, it is time to minimize the direct collection of personal information from telecommunication companies when opening mobile phones to secure the safety of military service personnel's personal information. Prior to introducing the use of mobile phones by soldiers after work, the Ministry of National Defense established a security control system such as blocking the mobile phone shooting function to prevent security accidents and concerns about some adverse functions such as illegal cyber gambling, game addiction, and viewing pornography. come. Mobile telecommunications companies entrust personal information processing tasks, such as opening mobile phones, to telecommunications agencies and carry out management and supervision, such as checking the status of personal information protection measures. When a military service member opens a mobile phone, a personal information management agency is newly established using the right to portability of personal information, and a system for requesting the transmission of personal information from the military service member is proposed.

Comparing the Mobile-phone Overuse by Gender and School Levels (성별과 학교급에 따른 휴대전화 과다사용의 차이)

  • Yoon, Mi-Sun
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences of the mobile phone overuse by gender and school levels. For this study, 565 middle and high school students in Gyeonggi province answered the self-report survey, 253 students were extracted as an overuse group, and the data were analyzed by one-way MANOVA. The results showed that 'daily disturbance' was a common major factor in gender and school level difference and 'school life disturbance', 'with draw' and 'tolerance' were added in school level difference. Based on the results, this study suggested users' characteristics such as gender and school level should be taken into prevention and treatment of mobile phone overuse.

An Analysis on the mediating effect of mobile addiction of Elementary School Students (초등학생의 스트레스와 사회적지지가 학교생활적응에 미치는 영향 -스마트폰 중독의 매개효과분석을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Sin Suk;Rhee, Young Sun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.627-634
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of elementary school students' stress and social support on smartphone addiction and school adjustment. Our hypothesis is that stress and social support of elementary school students affects smartphone addiction and school adjustment. In addition, the study model assumes that stress and social support of elementary school students were mediated by the effects of smartphone addiction. Analysis results found that elementary school students' stress affects smartphone addiction and school life adaptation, and social support influences school life adaptation. Elementary students' smartphone addiction has little influence on school life adjustment. Stress in elementary school students has a strong influence on smartphone addiction, social support, and adaptation to school life. In other words, higher stress levels results in higher frequency of use of smartphones, which may directly affect smartphone addiction and the ability to adapt to school life. The effects of stress and social support of elementary school students on school life adaptation and smartphone addiction were ultimately indirect. Based on the research results, this study suggests policy implications for elementary school students' addiction to smartphone and ability to adapt to school life.

Comparison of QEEG between EEG asymmetry and Coherehnce with elderly people according to smart_phone game Addiction Tendency (노인의 스마트 폰 게임 중독 경향에 따른 뇌파 비대칭(asymmetry)와 연결성(Coherehnce)의 정량화뇌파(QEEG) 비교 분석)

  • Weon, Hee Wook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.644-652
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the EEG according to the elderly's tendency to be addicted to smartphone games. We compared the effects of smartphone addiction on mental health such as brain waves, sleep problems and depression through comparative analysis of asymmetry and connectivity in quantitative EEG results. The study participants were two elderly people who were addicted to smartphone game and one elderly person who did not use smartphone (Ed- to confirm: only 3 participants?!). The participant's addiction tendency of smartphone was measured by using the smartphone addiction scale and EEG (QEEG) was used for EEG analysis. The results are as follows. First, the brain waves of elderly people and smartphone non-user elderly who showed symptoms of immersion and smartphone game showed a difference in asymmetry in both opening and closing anisles. Second, there were significant differences in the openness and the anxiety of the elderly who were immersed in the mobile phone and the elderly who did not use the smartphone. Through this, it is also meaningful to explore the relationship between senile cognitive impairment and smartphone use by exploring the effect of smartphone game use on brain cognitive function through comparison of EEG analysis.

Longitudinal Relationship between Addictive Use of Mobile Phones and Learning Activities for Elementary School Students : Multiple and Complex Group Analysis across Gender (초등학생의 휴대전화 중독적 사용과 학습활동의 종단적 관계 검증 : 성별 간 다집단 복합 분석)

  • Jun, Sang-Min
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.267-279
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    • 2015
  • The study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship between addictive use of mobile phones and learning activities for elementary school students and to analyze (1)temporal changes of the addictive use of mobile phones and learning activities, (2)temporal relationship between them, and (3)multiple and complex group analysis across gender on the relationship. For the study, 3-year longitudinal data(2010-2012) of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey and autoregressive cross-lagged modeling were used. The findings showed that the addictive use of mobile phones and learning activities had a significant positive effect on the future selves of children over time. The addictive use of mobile phones influenced positively subsequent learning activities, but, the learning activities did not affect the addictive use of mobile phones. Further, there were no significant gender differences in the longitudinal relationship. The study provided the useful data to make guidelines on how to protect mobile phone addiction for elementary school students.