scholarly journals The Relationships between Smartphone Addiction of Middle School Students and Smartphone Usage Types, Depression, ADHD, Stress, Interpersonal Problems, and Parenting Attitude

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youl Pyo Hong ◽  
Yeon Ok Yeom ◽  
Myung Ho Lim
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Interpersonal Problems ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
School Students ◽  
Parenting Attitude

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between smartphone addiction of middle school students and smartphone usage types, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stress, interpersonal problems, and parenting attitude. This study was also performed with the aim of verifying the relationships among depression, ADHD, perceived stress, interpersonal problems, and parenting attitude, which are predictors of smartphone addiction. The subjects of this study were 487 local middle school students (234 males and 253 females). The measurement instruments used were the smartphone addiction scale, depression scale (PHQ-9), ADHD scale (K-ARS), perceived stress scale (PSS), interpersonal problem scale (KIIP-SC), and the parenting attitude scale. This study identified the relationships between the variables with correlation analysis and examined the predictors of smartphone addiction with hierarchical multiple regression analysis. According to the study results, the factors that influenced smartphone addiction were gender, stress, and interpersonal problems. In addition, when the confounding variables of smartphone addiction were controlled to examine the effects of smartphone usage types on smartphone addiction, social media use and music/videos were found to have a positively significant effect on smartphone addiction while study had a negatively significant effect. The order of the usage types with the highest influence on smartphone addiction was enjoying music/videos, social media use, and study. This suggests that selective intervention depending on the main smartphone usage type can be effective.

scholarly journals Examination of the attitudes of middle school students towards social media

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanser Bulu ◽  
Mustafa Numanoglu ◽  
Hafize Keser
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Media Services

This study aims to identify middle school students` general attitudes towards social media. Participants of this descriptive study were middle school students from three public schools (n=367) in Ankara. Data was collected using “Demographic Information Form” and “Social Media Attitudes Survey for Students” developed by Ferhat Suleyman Argin in 2013. Data was analyzed using ANOVA, t test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskall Wallis-H test, frequency (f) and percentage (%). In this study, demographic information such as students’ gender, school type, grade level, perceived income levels, mother’s education level, and father’s education level; and social media use information such as membership to social media services, duration of social media use, frequency of social media use, time spent on social media at each use, medium that they use social media, tools to access social media and most used social media were collected. Students’ scores for Social Media Attitudes Survey were compared between groups based on this demographic and social media use variables. There were not a significant difference of Social Media Attitudes scores between the groups based on gender, schools, grade levels, perceived income levels, mother’s education level, father’s education level, membership to social media services, medium that they use social media, and tools to access social media variables. There were a significant difference of Social Media Attitudes scores between the groups based on frequency of social media use, and time spent on social media at each use variables. Since most used social media services variable was not distributed homogeneously, it couldn’t be compared. Based on the students overall Social Media Attitudes scores averages and score distribution and standard deviations it could be claimed that students’ general attitude toward social media was positive and high. Keywords: Type your keywords here, separated by semicolons

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