중학생의 스마트폰 몰입이 대인관계에 미치는 영향에서 자기조절력의 매개효과 분석

Abstract

These days, middle school students more use their smartphone continuously. The purpose of this empirical survey based study is to verify the mediating effect of middle school students’self-regulation on the influential relation between their smartphone indulgence and interpersonal relationship. To achieve that, this study chose as study subjects 275 middle school students in their 1st and 2nd years of the middle school in G-gu, Gwangju. A questionnaire survey had been conducted from Dec. 9 to 13, 2019. Based on the collected data, SPSS program was applied to conduct frequency analysis, reliability test, correlation analysis, and simple & multiple regression analysis. The study drew the following results: Firstly, smartphone indulgence had a significant relation with self-regulation, and smartphone indulgence and self-regulation of emotions and behaviors were found to be variables that significantly influenced interpersonal relationship positively and negatively. Secondly, in terms of the influence of smartphone indulgence on interpersonal relationship, the behavioral self-regulation perceived by the middle school students had complete medication, and the emotional self-regulation had partial medication. In order for middle school students to overcome their smartphone indulgence and make smooth relationship with their peer students and teachers in school, it will be necessary to develop and apply actively a variety of programs for enhancing behavioral and emotional self-regulation. In addition, it will be necessary to research the improvement in a variety of leisure culture in order to make them independent on smartphone.