A Study on Smartphone Addiction, Mental health and Impulsiveness For High School Students at Korea

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between the smartphone addiction proneness, mental health, and impulsiveness of high school students in Korea. 804 first and second year high school students participated in the survey that included the Smartphone addiction scale, Korean Brief Mental Diagnosis Exam -the highest 25% of total score (Addictive SmartPhone Use Group : ASPUG 213 persons), the lowest 25% of total score(Non-Addictive SmartPhone Use Group : NASPUG 204 persons), BIS-II Impulsiveness Scale and additional questions asking for demographical characteristics. The outcomes of this study were as follows. First, sex, grade of high school, academic accomplishment, student's satisfaction with school life, monthly allowance, the level of parental respect, having a opposite sex friend were related to smartphone addiction and impulsiveness. Second, ASPUG had worse mental health and impulsiveness than NASPUG, and the difference was statistically significant. Third, Students showed higher levels of mental health 9 subareas -anxiety, depression, phobic anxiety, Somatization, obsessive compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, Paranoid ideation, Psychosis as their smartphone use increased.

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Psychopathological Symptoms and Personality Traits as Predictors of Problematic Smartphone Use in Different Age Groups

“…Regarding the results of H3, correlates and the effect as a predictor of depression or depressive symptoms as well as symptoms of OCD have been demonstrated several times in research [ 15 , 39 , 40 , 47 , 48 , 49 ]. In this context, smartphones are used as a dysfunctional coping strategy to distract oneself from negative emotions and escape from this affective state [ 28 , 87 , 88 ].…”

“…Authors Kempf et al found initial evidence of a difference in OCD according to the duration of smartphone use [ 46 ]. A correlation between PSU and OCD has been shown several times before [ 47 , 48 , 49 ]. Research has also found multiple correlations with PSU for somatization [ 47 , 49 , 50 ].…”

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