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The effects of social stigma perceived by out-of-school adolescents on smart phone addiction; exploring the direction of activities through verification of the mediated effect of ego-resilience

  • 한국청소년활동연구
  • Abbr : SKYA
  • 2021, 7(2), pp.1-22
  • DOI : 10.36697/skya.2021.7.2.1
  • Publisher : Korea Youth Activity Research Association
  • Research Area : Natural Science > Life Sciences > Child Study > Adolescence Science
  • Received : May 31, 2021
  • Accepted : June 30, 2021
  • Published : June 30, 2021

Eunsu, Han ORD ID 1

1경산교육지원청

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ABSTRACT

Background & Purpose: The study was conducted to verify how the mediating effect of ego-resilience has an effect on out-of-school youth perceived social stigma and it goes to smart phone addiction. Methodology: For the research, the data was taken from the National Youth Policy Institute which surveyed the Out-of-School Youth Panel in 2014, the second survey of the Youth Panel found mediating effect by using the structural equation. Findings/Conclusions: First, the analysis on the average smart phone addiction out of school adolescents showed a hight percentage for girls than boys. Second, the social stigma showed a statistically significant influence on smart phone addiction. Third, ego-resilience showed partial mediation effect in relation between social stigma and smart phone addiction. Implications: On the findings, in order to lessen smart phone addiction caused by the social stigma, we suggested that we should find different kinds of ways to improve ego-resilience and conduct follow-up researches.

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