Longitudinal Relationship between Addictive Use of Mobile Phones and Learning Activities for Elementary School Students : Multiple and Complex Group Analysis across Gender

Abstract

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.

Comparing the Mobile-phone Overuse by Gender and School Levels

“…관련 변인들의 영향력을 살펴본 연구 중 일부는 휴대전화 사용시간 [5,6]이나 사용태도 [7,8,9]를 기준으로 과다사용 특성을 분석하였고, 일부는 신체적 건강 [10,11,12], 두뇌발달 [13], 정신건강과 사회성 및 가족과 대인관계 [14,15,16,17] 등의 영역에서 부정적 관련성이나 영향력을 분석하였다. 한편, 휴대폰 또는 스마트폰 과다 사용에 관한 연구는 초등학생 [18,19], 청소년 [20,21], 대 학생 이상의 성인 [22,23] [24]. 성차를 보고한 연구들 대부분은 남 자 청소년보다 여자 청소년의 수준이 높다고 보고하였다 [5,25,26,27,28].…”