Abstract
The purpose of this convergence study was to examine whether smartphone addiction predisposition mediated the relationship between perceived stress and health-promoting lifestyle in university students. A total of 332 subjects, recruited from a university in Seoul, participated by completing a survey which included questions about perceived stress, health-promoting lifestyle and smartphone addiction predisposition. As are result of the analysis, perceived stress had a significant positive effect on smartphone addiction predisposition. Perceived stress and smartphone addiction predisposition had significant negative effect on health-promoting lifestyle. Therefore, smartphone addiction predisposition had a mediating effect within the relationship of perceived stress and health-promoting lifestyle. Based on these results, we discussed the necessity of managing the stress and smartphone addiction to improve the health-promoting lifestyle of university students.
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