The purpose of this study is explore the effects of attachment dimension, dependent depression, and interpersonal anxiety of adolescence on smartphone according to the relations among attachment dimension, smartphone addiction, dependent depression, a...
The purpose of this study is explore the effects of attachment dimension, dependent depression, and interpersonal anxiety of adolescence on smartphone according to the relations among attachment dimension, smartphone addiction, dependent depression, and interpersonal anxiety of adolescence. Furthermore, this study established the model that dependent depression and interpersonal anxiety mediate the affects of attachment dimension of adolescence on smartphone addition to analyze mediating effects of mediators in the statistical differences, provided multidimensional exploration and baseline data about variables that affect smartphone addiction by showing that dependent depression and interpersonal anxiety affect both directly and indirectly in relations between attachment and smartphone addiction during the process, and suggested some useful strategies for counselors to explore the clients at counseling scene about the students with smartphone addiction tendency to make a goal for counseling.
The collected data were analyzed with Cronbach' α for each scale and Pearson’s correlation coefficient for each measurement variable by using SPSS, and structural model was developed and verified by AMOS in order to explain relations between attachment dimension(attachment anxiety and avoidance) and smartphone addiction of adolescence with mediators(dependent depression, interpersonal anxiety). Also, Sobel test was conducted to find out whether mediating effects have significance.
The main results of this study are summarized as follows.
Firstly, To find the relationship between the main variables showed that attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, dependent depression, social anxiety, the relationship between a smartphone addiction appeared in both correlations.
Secondly, Structural model to verify the result, set on the basis of previous research study model variables than competing models better explain the relationship between the structural research model as the final model was set.
Thirdly, after finding out the mediating effects of dependent depression in relations between attachment anxiety and smartphone addiction, it showed that dependent depression mediated partially to relations between attachment anxiety and smartphone addition.
Fourthly, as a result of the mediating effects of interpersonal anxiety in relations between attachment avoidance and smartphone addiction, interpersonal anxiety showed a partial mediation in relations between attachment avoidance and smartphone addition.
Building on these results, dependent depression and interpersonal anxiety, which mediates both directly and indirectly affects of attachment dimension of adolescence on smartphone addition, were synthetically investigated in this study, suggesting that attachment dimension, dependent anxiety, and interpersonal anxiety were taken into consideration to understand smartphone addiction of adolescence. Finally, it described the limitations of this research and the directions of future research.