Factors affecting Smartphone Addiction among Elementary School Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors that affects smartphone addiction of elementary school students. The subjects were 263 students, from 4 elementary schools located in G-city. Data were collected from July, 2014 and analyzed using SPSS 19.0 program. The prevalence of addiction risk group and non-addicted group were 16.0% and 84.0%, respectively. The variables which had statistically significant differences with smart phone addiction of general characteristics are grade, living together family, economic status, school record, motivation for usage, advantage of usage and using time (p<.05). There was pure correlation between the smartphone addiction and impulsivity (r=.496, p<.001), daily stress (r=.471, p<.001). However, perceived parental attitude (r=-.375, p<.001) and self-esteem (r=-.444, p<.001) were inverse correlation with smartphone addiction. Higher using time, higher impulsivity and higher daily stress were all associated with increased of smartphone addiction level. These results suggest that more attentions should be given to early adolescents and could be effectively used as fundamental data to develop intervention programs, which can prevent the smartphone addiction.

Associations between Children’s Health-Related Characteristics, Self-Esteem, and Fathers’ Parenting Practices and Media Addiction among Younger School-Aged Korean Children

“…Our findings on the direct relationship between media use time and media addiction are in line with previous studies on young [17] and late school-aged children (fifth and sixth grade of elementary school) [40]. In our data, 31.3% of the participants had a smartphone, and the average media use time per day amounted to 1.37 h. Based on a longitudinal study that examined the relationship between changes in media use time and media addiction among early school-aged children [16], children whose media use time continuously increased showed a strong tendency toward media addiction, as did those who spent more time using media at an early age.…”

The Psychology of Smartphone: The Development of the Smartphone Impact Scale (SIS)

“…The link between these dimensions and PSU is confirmed by their associations with the SAS subscales (Kwon, Lee, et al, 2013), which were particularly high especially between loss of control of smartphone use and nomophobia and the SAS subscales that measure tolerance and withdrawal. Moreover, personality traits that were previously identified as predictors of PSU, such as impulsivity, neuroticism, and low conscientiousness (Roberts et al, 2015; Ryu & Cho, 2015), were associated with these four SIS dimensions.…”

“…Moreover, a recent study showed that PSU is associated to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, in particular with two symptom clusters, namely negative alterations in cognitions and mood and physiological arousal symptoms (Contractor, Frankfurt, Weiss, & Elhai, 2017). Still from an addiction perspective, scholars have shown links between PSU and the personality traits typically associated with substance use, such as impulsivity (Roberts, Pullig, & Manolis, 2015; Ryu & Cho, 2015) and specific Big Five traits. In particular, Lane and Manner (2011) showed that more extraverted individuals were more likely to own a smartphone and to use it for texting, whereas more agreeable ones preferred calling than texting.…”

Effects of Parenting Behaviors and Children’s Happiness on Media Device Addiction

“…Lee & Ogbolu, 2018;Lim & Kim, 2018;H. Park & Kim, 2016;Ryu & Cho, 2015;S.-G. Yoo et al, 2018). , 4 6 (S. Lee et al, 2016).…”