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KMID : 0613620160360030303
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Health Social Welfare Review
2016 Volume.36 No. 3 p.303 ~ p.335
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Parenting Stress and Level of Smart-phone use in Mothers of Multi-cultural Families: The Moderating Effects of Social Support
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Lee Hun
Jang Soo-Mi
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of multi-cultural mothers’parenting stress on the level of smart-phone use and to examine the moderating effects of social support on the relations between parenting stress and level of
smart-phone use. The study was conducted based on a survey of multi-cultural mothers with young children who attend child care centers or kindergartens located in C city. The participants were 182 multi-cultural mothers. The major results are as follows. The high risk group of smart-phone addiction are 12.9%. Parenting stress was a significant factor predicting the level of smart-phone use, and social support moderated the relations between parenting stress and level of smart-phone addiction. Especially, the peer support had significant moderating effects. In conclusion, the findings of this study suggest the need to implement preventive programs on smart phone addiction for multi-cultural mothers and to strengthen the social support for them at the individual, familial and community levels.
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KEYWORD
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Multi-cultural Mother, Parenting Stress, Level of Smart-phone Use, Social Support
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