KMID : 0806120070370060872
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´ëÇÑ°£È£ÇÐȸÁö 2007 Volume.37 No. 6 p.872 ~ p.882
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A Study of Factors that Influence Internet Addiction, Smoking, and Drinking in High School Students
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June Kyung-Ja
So Ae-Young YI Ggod-Me Park Sun-Hee Sohn Shin-Young
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed at exploring relationships among Internet addiction, smoking, and drinking and examining the effect factors on Internet addiction, smoking and drinking.
Methods: By using stratified sampling, 1,529 participants representing high school students in the Kangwon province were selected. Data was analyzed by SPSS 12.0. using ¥ö2, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.
Results: One-fifth of the total participants were at the mild or moderate stage of Internet addiction. Regarding smoking, 22.7% of male subjects and 4.5% of female subjects were current smokers. Regarding drinking, the percentages of subjects who drank alcohol once or twice per month were 53.5% of male students and 40.7% of female students. Internet
addiction positively correlated with depression, novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence, Internet addiction negatively correlated with persistence, self-directness, cooperativeness, and self-transcendence. Significant factors affecting Internet addiction were depression, gender, novelty seeking, and self-transcendence. Important factors influencing smoking were drinking, gender, school type, satisfaction with school, novelty seeking, and reward dependence. Significant factors affecting drinking were smoking, novelty seeking, school type and ages.
Conclusion: This study shows the necessity of developing and implementing effective intervention programs in order to prevent adolescents from experiencing Internet addiction and health risk behaviors.
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KEYWORD
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Smoking, Drinking, Temperament, Character
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