• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.19-33
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of ego resilience on the relationship between family strengths of Chinese international students and Social Networking Services(SNS) addiction tendency. The data were collected through a survey of 349 Chinese international students studying in Korea and analyzed using the SPSS Statistics version 28 program and SPSS Process Macro 4.3. The main results are as follows. First, Chinese international students exhibited higher-than-average levels of SNS addiction tendency, family strengths, and ego resilience. Second, the SNS addiction tendency of Chinese international students had a significant positive correlation with the average time spend on SNS per day. while demonstrating a negative correlation with family strengths and ego resilience. Third, the hierarchical regression analysis revelated that gender, frequency of contact with family, average time spend on SNS per day, qualitative bond as a sub variable of family strengths, and control as a sub variables of ego resilience were significant factors influencing SNS addiction tendency of Chinese international students. Fourth, the study confirmed the complete mediation of ego resilience in the effect of family strengths on SNS addiction tendency. Based on the research results, this study suggested specific directions for counseling interventions aimed at mitigating SNS addiction tendencies among Chinese international students.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.763-772
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• 2016

This study was examined the influence of self-efficacy and attachment on SNS addiction tendency in college students. For this purpose 303 college students in Daegu completed the related survey. Data were collected from September 30 to October 20, 2013. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0. The major findings were as follow; 1) There were negative relationships among SNS addiction tendency and self-efficacy. 2) There were positive relationships among SNS addiction tendency and adult attachment. These results indicate that it is necessary to design intervention programs to increase self-efficacy and attachment stability in order to decrease college students' SNS addiction tendency.

• Korean Journal of School Psychology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.109-123
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to understand path of internal narcissism toward SNS addiction tendency of middle school students. The study intended to test the hypothesis that internal narcissism personality would lead to the SNS addiction tendency through interpersonal problems and that the internal narcissism effect on the interpersonal problems can depend on Gender difference The subjects of the study were 240 middle school students (95 male and 145 female students) in Gwangju area. The descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and SPSS Macro PROCESS Model were used. The results of the study are as follows. First, there was a significant positive interpersonal problems mediation efffect between inner narcissism and SNS addiction tendency of middle school students. Second, as a result of examining Gender difference moderatiing effect between internal narcissism, and interpersonal problems relationship. according to gender difference statistically significant. Third, Moderated mediation effect of gender difference and interpersonal problems between internal narcissism personality and SNS addiction tendency relationship is statistically significant. Recently, social networking has become a serious problem in our society and it shows the highest rate of addiction in early middle school students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of psychological factors of inner narcissism and interpersonal problems on the SNS addiction tendency, focusing on the gender differences in middle school students, and to provide basic data to prevent adolescent SNS addiction problems have.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.99-122
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• 2016

The social networking services (SNSs) have become popular among smartphone users, and one of the most popular services. In order to explain users' motivations toward SNS, this study considers uses and gratification theory which can explain individuals' motivations to select certain media channels. The purposes of this study is to investigate the relationships between motivations and addiction of SNS, and between addiction of SNS and decline in the subjective wellbeing. We examine moderating effects of social tie based on the social capital theory in the relationships between SNS addiction and decline in the subjective wellbeing. The motivations of SNS are subdivided into emotional motive (entertainment and fantasy) and cognitive motive (information share burden and challenge burden) based on the use and gratifications theory. The addiction of SNS is subdivided into time tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, interruption, and barrier of living. The data used in this study were collected from 286 SNS users through surveys. The data analysis in this study was performed using AMOS 17.0, and we used SEM(Structural Equation Modeling) methods in order to test the research model. The result shows that the emotional motive(entertainment and fantasy) and cognitive motive(information share burden and challenge burden) have an effect on the addiction of SNS. Especially emotional motive such as entertainment and users' fantasy toward SNS is an important factor that can cause SNS addiction. The addiction of SNS such as time tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, interruption, and barrier of living has an effect on the decline in the subjective wellbeing. Our result show that social tie partially moderates the relationship SNS addiction and decline in the subjective wellbeing. In addition, social tie between interruption of SNS and decline in the subjective wellbeing is an important moderating factor. The results focuses on the understanding toward relationship between SNS addiction based on the online and decline in the subjective wellbeing in the real world. The findings of this study also provides theoretical as well as practical implications which reflect the major features of SNS, and moderating effects of social tie based on the social capital.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.561-568
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of SNS addiction tendency, pathological narcissism, social support, and stress among university students. Data were collected via questionnaires from 385 students and were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and Stepwise multiple regression analysis using SPSS/WIN 19.0 program. The levels of SNS addiction tendency depended on gender, SNS usage time, SNS over-usage, health problem, and household economic status. SNS addiction tendency was significantly correlated with pathological narcissism, social support, and stress. Influential factors that affect SNS addiction tendency were pathological narcissism, SNS usage time, SNS over-usage, gender, social support, and academic performance, which explained about 39.4% of the variance. The results of this study indicate that nursing interventions are necessary to improve SNS addiction tendency, and also suggesting that such variables should be carefully considered in intervention programs for university students.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 2021

Social media users are an important part of our lives as they spend a lot of time and actively use them. However, it is known that there are many users who feel the psychological stress of SNS stress or fall into addiction due to SNS use. SNS stress negatively affects not only the user's mind but also the body. This study investigates the associations between SNS stress and addiction. To test the hypotheses, the study performed structural equation modeling using Amos. We collected 210 data from SNS users. The empirical results showed that SNS overuse had a significant effect on SNS stress. Second, SNS stress had a significant relationship with SNS addiction. Third, it was found that SNS overuse did not directly affect SNS addiction. This study suggests that it is necessary to recognize the importance of the relationship between SNS addiction and SNS stress.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.180-187
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• 2016

This study was performed to identify the relationship between the SNS addiction tendency, self-assertiveness and interpersonal problems in college students. The subjects consisted of 198 students in Korea. The data were collected using a self-report questionnaire from September 10 to 12, 2013. The data were analyzed by frequency, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation using SPSS for Windows version 22. The SNS addiction tendency was significantly negatively correlated with self-assertiveness(r=-.148, p<.05) and significantly positively correlated with interpersonal problems (r=.434, p<.001). Self-assertiveness was significantly negatively correlated with interpersonal problems (r=-.459, p<.001). The higher the SNS addiction tendency, the lower the self-assertiveness and the higher the interpersonal problems. The lower the self-assertiveness, the higher the interpersonal problems. Therefore, to decrease the SNS addiction tendency, increase the self-assertiveness and decrease the interpersonal problems, it is necessary to develop and test program.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.69 no.1
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• pp.223-254
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• 2017

This study was carried out to examine whether the moderated mediating effect of SNS addiction resulting from marital dissatisfaction and loneliness is influenced by gender or size and composition of social capital. 714 married men and women in their 20's to 40's were participated in this study. The data were collected by online research center with quota sampling based on demographical proportion. To analyze this research model, the moderated mediating effect utilizing structural equation was used. The results of this study were summarized as follows. First, it is verified that the loneliness moderated between marital dissatisfaction and SNS addiction. Since the relationship between independent and dependent variable is insignificant, comparison of competition model was able to determine if mediating effect was fully or partially shown. As a result, the complete mediated model was ultimately chosen because its various goodness-of-fit index including $x^2$ performed fairly well. Second, the mediating effect which moderates social capital size was presented in the mediated model between the marital dissatisfaction, loneliness and SNS addiction. Specifically, It implies that group who recognizes their social capital big recognizes the route and effect size more than that who considers their social capital small. And the moderated mediating effect depending on different type of social capital among the marital dissatisfaction and loneliness and between SNS addiction was substantiated. It implies that disequilibration of SNS social capital in face-to-face sphere and in online acted as a danger fact with respect to the marital dissatisfaction, loneliness and SNS addiction. The implications of these findings were discussed, and directions for future studies were also proposed.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.191-197
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to identify the predictive power of the effect of pre-early childhood teachers' self-efficacy and ego resiliency on the SNS addiction tendency. To this end, a self - administered survey was conducted for 117 students in the first, second, and third grades of junior college of junior college in metropolitan area and multiple regression analysis was performed based on the collected data. The research findings showed that self-efficacy and ego resiliency had a negative effect on SNS addiction tendency. This suggests that self-efficacy and ego resiliency are statistically significant variables in predicting pre-early childhood teachers' SNS addiction tendency. These results also suggest that specific measures for enhancing self-efficacy and ego resiliency should be considered as precautionary measures to prevent SNS addiction of pre-early childhood teachers.