This research was conducted to find differences between sub factors of career maturity depending on smartphone usage motivation and the effects of smartphone addiction and usage motivation on career motivation, an important development tasks of adoles...
This research was conducted to find differences between sub factors of career maturity depending on smartphone usage motivation and the effects of smartphone addiction and usage motivation on career motivation, an important development tasks of adolescent times.
For this reason, questionnaire survey was conducted on 319 female students from 7th, 8th, and 9th grade in specialized high school located in Gyeongido region’s K city
The major findings of this study are as follows:
First, on differences across each grade on smart phone addiction and smart phone usage motivation with career maturity, significant difference was seen for smart phone usage motivation.
9th grade showed higher results than 7th grade for total factors and information acquisition in regards to smart phone usage motivation. Smart phone addiction and career maturity showed similar results regardless of the grades.
Second, on correlation analysis on relationship between smartphone addiction and smartphone usage motivation with career maturity, discomfort of living/maladjustment, which are sub factors of smartphone addiction hadnegative correlation with career maturity. Moreover, smartphone usagemotivation showed meaningful positive correlation with career maturity. Sub factors of smartphone usage motivation showed positive correlation in order of immediacy, functionality and convenience, information acquisition, service integration, and relations maintenance. Excluding factors of entertainment and leisure, ostentation and trend, the higher smartphone usage motivation, the higher the level of career maturity.
Third, looking at effects of smartphone addition on career maturity, discomfort of living/maladjustment, a sub factor of smartphone addiction, showed to have significant negative effects on career maturity, meaning greater the difficulties of everyday life arising from over usage of smartphone, lower the level of career maturity.
Fourth, looking at the effects of smartphone usage motivation on career maturity, immediacy and relations maintenance showed significant positive influence on career maturity. This means higher desire to satisfy wanted function unrestricted from time or place, or if the smartphone is used to communicate with various people and sustain close relationships, results in higher career maturity level. On the other hand, using smartphone for ostentation and trend, or tokeep up with social fashions resulted in lower career maturity.
Therefore, through this study, it can be established that only discomfort of living/maladjustment out of smartphone addiction had significant negative effects on career maturity and depending on the factors of smartphone usage motivation, there were significant positive and negative effects on career maturity. On this research results, it is hoped that directions to expand positive elements of smartphones on career maturity of youth be presented.