This study is for middle school students to recognize the impact of mental health. by a Smart phone addiction proneness. First, purpose of this study is that find out smart phone addiction proneness of middle school students is influenced by gender, grade, and residential area, and relationship between smart phone addiction proneness and mental health, and next how smart phone addiction proneness affect to mental health.
This study get sampling from located in downtown and old downtown middle school in S-city, jeollanam-do. and also choose one middle school randomly in rural areas outside the city, collects data based on questionnaire about adolescents self-diagnosis addiction scale smart phones and measuring mental health of adolescents with 543 entire people into the subjects of study. The collected data analyzed to extract to 4 keyword -depression(8questions), anxiety(8questions), impulsivity(8questions), aggression(8questions)- which is expected to be high to problem of smart phone addiction tendency in neurosis of factors of SPSS WIN 18.0 and reasonable NEO-PAS adolescents inspection of character.
To summarize the results of this study are as follows.
First, female students were higher than male students in the difference of smart phone addiction proneness in accordance with the gender and show statistically similar difference. Like this, female students had more severe than male students, daily disturbances, virtual world directivity, withdrawal, tolerance, etc the entire smart phone addiction than male students. The difference in the grade by smart phone addiction proneness appeared in the order of third grade, second grade, first grade and show statistically similar difference in daily disturbances, withdrawal and tolerance, in posteriori test result 3rd grade is more higher than 1st grade to find out detailed difference daily disturbances and withdrawal effected on smart phone addiction proneness and also in tolerance 3rd grade is more higher than 2nd grade and 1st grade. In the case of residential area, downtown had high smart phone addiction proneness students than old downtown.
Second, according to smart phone addiction proneness sub factor and relationship of mental health, daily disturbances, mental health, virtual world directivity, withdrawal, tolerance showed meaningful positive relationship and smart phone addiction and mental health show relationship to be attended generally.
Third, as high level of smart phone users, mental health problems are growing like depression, anxiety, impulsivity and aggression. In the smart phone addiction proneness of middle school students, factors which effect on mental health problem like depression, anxiety, impulsivity, aggression and etc are badly appear.
And also level of effected on mental health appear by impulsivity, aggression, anxiety and depression.
Finally, this study provide proposal for a follow-up study.