This study is intended to analyze the influence of a perceived parental attitude of middle school students on their internet game addiction and how the resilience and career maturity served as a mediated effect on the relationship between the parental...
This study is intended to analyze the influence of a perceived parental attitude of middle school students on their internet game addiction and how the resilience and career maturity served as a mediated effect on the relationship between the parental attitude and internet game addiction. This survey was conducted on 638 second grade students at the middle schools in Geongsangnam-do and Geongsangbuk-do and analyzed for final 616 copies of them. The collected data were analyzed with frequency analysis, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, pearson’s correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and mediating regression analysis using SPSS v.22 statistical program.
Five research subjects are set for this study. First, how different are the perceived parental attitude, resilience, career maturity, and Internet game addiction of the middle school students depending on the background variables?
Second, how different are the perceived parental attitude, resilience, and career maturity depending on types of internet game addiction?
Third, how strongly pairs of variables are related among the perceived parental attitude, resilience, career maturity, and internet game addiction? Fourth, how do the perceived parental attitude, resilience, and career maturity relatively influence on internet game addiction?
Finally, how is mediated effect of the resilience and the career maturity shown in the relationship between the perceived parental and the internet game addiction?
Results of the study are as follows. First, the averages of perceived parental attitude of female students for both fathers and mothers were higher than those of male students. Internet game addiction of male students was shown to be higher than that of female students in average. In addition, the average of internet game addiction in the use of computer was higher than the one in the use of smart phones.
Second, according to each of the differences based on types of internet game addiction; ‘general user group’ has the higher perceived parental attitude for both fathers and mothers as compared to ‘internet game addicted group’ and ‘internet game excessively focused group.’ In addition, ‘general user group’ has higher level of resilience as compared to ‘internet game excessively focused group.’ However, there was no difference on the career maturity depending on the types of internet game addiction.
Third, according to the correlation among the perceived parental attitude, resilience, career maturity, and internet game addiction, there was a positive correlation among the parental attitude for fathers and mothers, resilience, and career maturity with level of p<.01. In addition, it was turned out that the parental attitude for fathers and mothers, resilience, and career maturity was negatively correlated with internet game addiction in the level of p<.01.
Fourth, according to the relative influence of parental attitude, resilience, and career maturity on internet game addiction, the parental attitude for fathers and mothers was turned out to be negatively influenced on the internet game addiction. However, the resilience and career maturity were shown not to be significantly influenced on the internet game addiction.
Finally, according to the mediated effect of resilience and career maturity on the relationship between the parental attitude and the internet game addiction, the resilience and career maturity have a partial mediated effect on the relationship between the parental attitude and the internet game addiction. In addition, the parental attitude was shown to be negatively influenced on the internet game addiction without the mediating resilience and career maturity.
The aforementioned results of the study represented that the parental attitude, resilience, and career maturity positively influenced on the prevention and reduction of internet game addiction and the resilience and career maturity have a partial mediated effect on the relationship between the parental attitude and the internet game addiction.