TY - JOUR
T1 - Smartphone addiction and application usage in Korean adolescents
T2 - Effects of mediation strategies
AU - Lee, Sook Jung
AU - Lee, Changho
AU - Lee, Cheolhan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Scientific Journal Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We examined adolescent application usage related to smartphone addiction and also explored mediation strategies used to prevent their addiction. Participants were 3,000 adolescents in grades 7 to 12 who completed an online survey. According to the findings, frequent use of social networking site applications (apps), game apps, and video apps tended to exacerbate adolescents’ addiction to smartphones. Mediation strategies negatively related to smartphone addiction were active parental mediation for young adolescent girls, technical restrictions for young adolescent boys, and limited service plans for both these groups. Parental restriction tended to increase the likelihood of smartphone addiction. Addiction prevention programs being implemented in schools did not have any impact in preventing addiction. Overall, our findings suggest that the effects of mediation strategies are weak and these effects are limited to young adolescents.
AB - We examined adolescent application usage related to smartphone addiction and also explored mediation strategies used to prevent their addiction. Participants were 3,000 adolescents in grades 7 to 12 who completed an online survey. According to the findings, frequent use of social networking site applications (apps), game apps, and video apps tended to exacerbate adolescents’ addiction to smartphones. Mediation strategies negatively related to smartphone addiction were active parental mediation for young adolescent girls, technical restrictions for young adolescent boys, and limited service plans for both these groups. Parental restriction tended to increase the likelihood of smartphone addiction. Addiction prevention programs being implemented in schools did not have any impact in preventing addiction. Overall, our findings suggest that the effects of mediation strategies are weak and these effects are limited to young adolescents.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Application usage
KW - Parental mediation
KW - Smartphone addiction
KW - Technical restriction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018696957&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2224/sbp.2016.44.9.1525
DO - 10.2224/sbp.2016.44.9.1525
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85018696957
SN - 0301-2212
VL - 44
SP - 1525
EP - 1534
JO - Social Behavior and Personality
JF - Social Behavior and Personality
IS - 9
ER -