Abstract

Objectives The purpose of the study seeks to look into adolescents’ smartphone usage and prove the hypothesis that personal protective factor of self-esteem and environmental protective factor of social support would show mediating effects in the relationship between personal risk factor of adolescents’ smartphone dependence and social relationship anxiety.
 Methods A survey was conducted on ten middle and high schools located in Jeollabuk-do Province. The ten schools consist of one special purpose middle school, one special purpose high school. Out of 1,600 questionnaires distributed, 1,483 were retrieved, upon which 41 were excluded because of their insincere responses, resulting in 1,442 to be used as the data. Win SPSS 25.0 statistics program and AMOS 25.0 were employed to analyze the collected data.
 Results As a result of effect analysis after applying this confirmed program to adolescents’ smartphone dependence showed significant positive correlation with social relationship anxiety, but showed significant negative correlation with self-esteem and social support. Social relationship anxiety formed significant negative correlation with self-esteem and social support. Self-esteem and social support showed significant positive correlation between variables. and self-esteem and social support operated as mediating effects in the relationship between adolescents’ smartphone dependence and social relationship anxiety. Furthermore, the same mediating effects were found in boys and girls alike.
 Conclusions In this study,the effect of protective factors to dependence on Based on smartphones was proved, it provided an important theorical basis.

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