한국 초등학생의 스포츠 및 게임 참가와 게임중독성향, 부모와의 관계 및 주관적 행복

Abstract

In circumstance that elementary school students’ mobile game activity using smart phone is explosively increasing, at the same time being social problem, the purpose of the study is to investigate the positive and negative effects of sport and game participation. Also, to clarify relationship between the experience and level of sport and game participation and game addiction tendency, demonstrating both relationship between the children and parents and individual’s subjective happiness. After initial plan of the study was submitted to the Korean Science Resource Center, we were provided with survey materials on the Korean Children and Adolescent Happiness Index in 2015. Under support of Korea Bang Jnugwhan foundation, The survey was conducted by the Institute for Social Development of Yonsei University through proportional probability sampling method, selecting 2,096 students in grades 4-6 of elementary schools in Korea as subjects. This study used exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, T test and regression analysis using SPSSWIN 20.0. The conclusions drawn from the above research methods and procedures are as follows. First, this manifests that the game addiction tendency differs depending on sport and game participation. That is, sport participants are less addictive to game than non-participants, whereas game participants are more strongly addictive than nonparticipants. Second, there are differences in the relationship with parents depending on whether they participate in sports or games. In other words, sport participants have a better relationship with parents than nonparticipants, whereas game participants have worse relationship with parents than non-participants. Third, it drew the fact that there is a difference in subjective happiness relying on sport and game participants. In other words, subjective happiness is higher in sports participants than non-participants, while subjective happiness for game participants are lower than non-participants. Fourth, the level of sport participation not only has an impact on subjective happiness but also influences the relationship with residence area and parents. Fifth, the level of sport participation not merely directly promotes subjective happiness, but indirectly improves subjective happiness by improving relationship with parents. On the contrary, game participation level has a negative effect on the relationship with parents and increasingly reduces subjective happiness.