성인 ADHD 성향과 스마트폰 중독의 관계 : 정서조절곤란과 지각된 사회적 지지의 매개효과

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the effects of adult ADHD tendency on the smartphone addiction, and also to research the mediating effects of emotion regulation difficulties and perceived social support on the relationship between adult ADHD tendency and smartphone addiction. For this, targeting 293 adult men(n=113) and women(n=180), a survey was conducted by using the Adult Smartphone Addiction Scale, Korean-version Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scale(CAARS-K), Korean-version Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale(K-DERS), and Social Support Scale. Using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0 Program, the results of descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, structural equation model verification, and mediating effects analysis are as follows. First, in the results of descriptive statistics analysis, the average of smartphone addiction was significantly higher in women than men. Regarding the sub-scales of smartphone addiction, except for 'prominence', all the scales were significantly higher in women than men. Also, in the results of correlation analysis, men showed higher negative correlations between ADHD tendency and perceived social support than women. Second, in the relationship between adult ADHD tendency and smartphone addiction, there were partial mediating effects of emotion regulation difficulties and perceived social support. Especially, the mediating effects of emotion regulation difficulties were largely shown. Third, there were gender differences in the structural equation model. In case of women, the complete mediating effects of emotion regulation difficulties on the change from ADHD tendency to smartphone addiction were more significant. In case of men, the partial mediating effects of it on the change from ADHD tendency to smartphone addiction were more significant. Based on such results, this study verified that the emotion regulation difficulties would be an important variable to explain the relationship between adult ADHD tendency and smartphone addiction, and also revealed the gender differences in the role of emotion regulation difficulties. Based on such results, the significance and limitations of this study, and implications for follow-up researches were discussed.