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In the Impact of Academic Stress on Smartphone Addiction among Teenagers - Focusing on Dual Mediating Effects of Depression and Aggression -

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2018, 14(6), pp.77~90
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2018.14.6.77
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : April 20, 2018
  • Accepted : June 20, 2018
  • Published : June 30, 2018

Seo, Bo-Jun 1

1한국국제대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aimed to verify the dual mediating effects of depression and aggression in the impact of academic stress on smartphone addiction among teenagers in Korea. Among 270 teenagers attending high schools located in Daegu Metropolitan City, 250 were found to be highly addictive to smartphone and selected for our final analysis. The findings of the analyses done by SPSS/PC (21.0) and AMOS (21.0) were as follows. First, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between academic stress and smartphone addiction and between depression and aggression among teenagers. Second, depression and aggression had dual mediating effects in the impact of academic stress on smartphone addiction among teenagers. Based on such findings, this study presented the need to develop a program to prevent teenagers from being addicted to smartphone.

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