Smartphone use and smartphone addiction in middle school students in Korea: Prevalence, social networking service, and game use
Cha SS, Seo BK
Health psychology open · 186 citations
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- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
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- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2018-01-01 · Health Psychol Open · vol. 5 · issue 1 · p. 2055102918755046
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Cited
- 602 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 143.8× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 67 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Keywords
- smartphone addiction, junior high school students, adolescents, mobile gaming, smartphone use patterns, smartphone use duration, predictive factors, South Korea
2 authors
From KR
- Seong-Soo ChaEulji University
- Bo-Kyung Seo · correspondingEulji University
Abstract
This study aimed to examine smartphone use patterns, smartphone addiction characteristics, and the predictive factors of the smartphone addiction in middle school students in South Korea. According to the Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale scores, 563 (30.9%) were classified as a risk group for smartphone addiction and 1261 (69.1%) were identified as a normal user group. The adolescents used mobile messengers for the longest, followed by Internet surfing, gaming, and social networking service use. The two groups showed significant differences in smartphone use duration, awareness of game overuse, and purposes of playing games. The predictive factors of smartphone addiction were daily smartphone and social networking service use duration, and the awareness of game overuse.
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