The Effects of Smart-phone Use Experience on Emotion Regulationand Attention Concentration of Young Children

Abstract

As for the results of this study, young children's smart-phone use experience had significant effects on their emotion regulation and attention concentration. This means that their smart-phone use experience is a negative factor to impede their educational satisfaction, selective and continuous concentration as it brings a decline in their emotion expression, emotion management and emotional coping mechanisms, and attention concentration even during class from the early childhood teachers' side. Especially, increase the frequency of young children’s use of smart-phone declines in their self-emotion expression, emotional management and selective attention concentration. In addition, Young children’s attention concentration is distinguished from Received (January 26, 2016), Review Result (February 11, 2016) Accepted (February 18, 2016), Published (April 30, 2016) 305-764 Dept of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea email: yskang@cnu.ac.kr (Corresponding Author) 305-764 Dept of Education, Chung-Nam National University, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea email: jgkim426@cnu.ac.kr The Effects of Smart-phone Use Experience on Emotion Regulation and Attention Concentration of Young Children Copyright c 2016 HSST 98 their gender. In general, Girl have higher attention concentration abilities especially selective attention concentration. Consequently, their smart-phone use needs to be controlled at home rather than in child care centers.