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KMID : 1123620180160030001
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Journal of Korean Society of Sensory Integration Therapists
2018 Volume.16 No. 3 p.1 ~ p.10
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The Correlation Between Smartphone Addiction and Sensory Processing Feature Depending on Gender in College Students
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Hong Eun-Kyoung
Lee Hye-Rim
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Abstract
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Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate smartphone addition and sensory processing character depend on gender for occupational therapy (OT) students, and to identify the correlation between smartphone addiction and sensory processing feature.
Methods : Participants of this study were 168 (70 male/90 female) students majoring occupational therapy. Measurements in this study were a questionnaire about general information of subject, smartphone addiction scale, and adult/adolescent sensory profile. Data collection period was from November 2017 to March 2018.
Methods for the data analysis included descriptive statistics, independent t-test and Pearson correlation of SPSS22.0.
Results : In term of the purpose of using smartphone, majority response was communication and gaming ranked in next. There were difference between male and female in the total smartphone addition, cyberspace-oriented relationship, withdrawal and tolerance. The result showed that all sensory processing are related with total smartphone addition (r = .236 ∼ .603) for man. And for women, total smartphone addition is little related with the taste/smell processing (r= .290), visual processing (r= .324), touch processing (r= .214), low registration (r= .214), sensory sensitivity (r= .243), and sensory avoiding (r= .217).
Conclusion : This study found that there is difference between male and female in terms of relation between smartphone addition and sensory processing feature according for occupational therapy students.
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KEYWORD
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college student, gender, sensory processing, smartphone addition
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