Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of smartphone addiction of parents with elementary school children on marital conflict and to explore the structural relationships among smartphone addiction of parents, marital conflict, parental involvement, and media device addiction of their children who go to elementary school.
 Methods A total of 1,224 pairs of data from the 13th Korean Children's Panel Study (2020) were analyzed with Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). In order to compare the actor and the partner effect of smartphone addiction, an equivalence constraint model was set up and difference verification was conducted. Also, a structural equation analysis method based on the maximum likelihood method (ML) was used to verify the structural relationship among parental smartphone addiction, marital conflict, parental involvement, and elementary school students' addiction to media devices.
 Results The results are as follows: first, both mother’s and father’s smartphone addiction had a positive actor effect on the marital conflict, but a positive partner effect was only confirmed from mother’s smartphone addiction. Second, the actor effect of smartphone addiction on marital conflict was found to be greater in father than mother, however, the partner effect of father's smartphone addiction on marital conflict perceived by mother was greater than the partner effect of mother's smartphone addiction on marital conflict perceived by father. Third, mother's smartphone addiction was influenced through how she perceived marital conflict and parental involvement on students' media device addiction, while father's smartphone addiction was influenced sequentially by mother's perceived marital conflict and parental involvement on students' media device addiction.
 Conclusions This study suggests that both mother and father's smartphone addiction affect to elementary school students' media device addiction, but the mechanisms affecting on media device addiction from parents are different.
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