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KMID : 1142320170180020079
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Alcohol and Health Behavior Research
2017 Volume.18 No. 2 p.79 ~ p.91
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A Study of the Effects of Smartphone Usage Motivation on Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: The Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy and Self-Control
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Lim Seong-Beom
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to investigate ways to seek social welfare interventions on the issue of increasing smartphone addiction in adolescents.
Methods: To keep the study reliable and valid, the researcher measured the issue of addiction by utilizing his/her own assessments that were developed by himself/herself. Furthermore, from October 26 to December 2, 2015, a preliminary survey was administered based on the survey that was both edited and carried out extensively. The research, targeting middle and high school students in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, analyzed 589 surveys that had been distributed throughout the area; 11 out of the 600 distributed surveys were not analyzed due to some unanswered or dishonest responses.
Results: The results were as follows. First, smartphone usage motivation had a direct effect on self-efficacy and an indirect effect on self-control; it also had both direct and indirect effects on smartphone addiction. Second, self-efficacy had a direct effect on self-control and also had both direct and indirect effects on smartphone addiction. Finally, self-control had a direct effect on smartphone addiction.
Conclusions: Self-efficacy is verified as the mediation between smartphone usage motivation and self-control, and smartphone usage motivation and smartphone addiction. Self-control is verified as the mediation between self-efficacy and smartphone addiction.
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KEYWORD
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smartphone addiction, smartphone usage motivation, self-efficacy, self-control
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