Abstract
Objectives This study was conducted to examine the direct and indirect effects of parents' achievement pressure, children's smartphone addiction, and school adaptation on children's happiness.
 Methods In order to analyze the influence relationships between variables, the 13th (2020) data of the Parenting Policy Research Institute's Panel Study of Korea Children was collected from 629 children and parents who answered all of the questions out of 2,150. The data was used in the final analysis, and was statistically processed and analyzed through SPSS 21.0 and Amos 21.0 programs.
 Results First, the direct influence of parents' achievement pressure on children's smartphone addiction and children's school adaptation and happiness was found to be significant, and the direct influence of children's school adaptation on happiness was also found to be significant. On the other hand, the direct influence of children's smartphone addiction on happiness was found to be insignificant. Second, parents' achievement pressure was found to have an indirect effect through the mediation of children's school adaptation. Third, in the path where parents' achievement pressure affects children's happiness, a sequential double mediating effect of children's smartphone addiction and school adaptation was found. Lastly, the factor that had the greatest impact on children's happiness was found to be the school adaptation variable.
 Conclusions The results of this study show that children's school adaptability has the greatest impact in amplifying children's happiness, and suggest the need to develop various counseling programs to relieve parents' achievement pressure and promote smart phone use to promote children's happiness.
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