A Study on Smartphone Addiction Tendency and Personality Traits of Elementary Schools in Keelung City
| Autor: | Li, Chia-ju, 李家如 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 106 The study aims to investigate the current situation of smartphone addiction of elementary school high-grade students and figure out the differences, correlations, and predictable effects when considering their personalities. 946 student participants were randomly selected from high-grade students at public elementary schools in Keelung City. The effective questionnaire responding rate is 98.95%. Two questionnaires, “Smartphone Addiction Tendency Inventory” and the “Personality quality chart for elementary school high-grade students,” were developed to evaluable the valuables which this study intended to investigate. At the same time, qualitative responses were also collected to understand the in-depth insight and context. 5 items are included in the scale of the “smartphone addiction tendency” with the .91 in Cronbach’s alpha, while 5 items are in the scale of the “personality quality chart” with .83 in Cronbach’s alpha. The study got the following conclusions 1. About 70% of high-grade students at elementary schools in Keelung City have smartphones, mainly based on moderate dependent. a. 68.4 % of high-grade students at elementary schools in Keelung City use smartphone. b. Most of these students use smartphone after school for the purpose of entertainment and using social platform. The benefits of using smartphone are convenient and versatile while the drawbacks are unhealthy to individual when using overtime, money-wasting, and bringing negative impact to academic performance. c. The degree of self-assessment dependence on smartphone is mainly moderately dependent. Six factors that make students depend on smartphone are entertainment, instrumentality, sociality, convenience, dependence, and physical harm. 2. Smartphone addiction cases for high-grade students at elementary schools in Keelung City are normal. a. The normal level of smartphone addiction occupied 67.1%,while the warning level accounted for 12.4%, while the danger level accounted for 20.5%. b. There are significant differences between smartphone addiction and grade, parents’ economic income, types of mobile phones student-owned, seniority of use, and average daily usage time. The higher the grade level, the higher the parents’ income, the better the smartphone type, the longer the seniority of use, and the more time spent each day, the more obvious the tendency of smartphone addiction. 3. Smartphone addiction is positively correlated to neuroticism. a. Smartphone addiction is positively correlated to neuroticism, indicating that the more unstable the personality traits, the more serious the tendency of smartphone addiction. b. Extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness are negatively correlated with the smartphone addiction, indicating that the higher the extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness of personality traits, the less obvious the tendency of smartphone addiction. 4. "Neuroticism" personality has the highest positive predictability for smartphone addiction. a. The most predictive variables of personality traits for smartphone addiction are " Neuroticism," " Openness," and " Conscientiousness." b. "Neuroticism" personality has the highest positive predictability for smartphone addiction. It is shown that the more emotionally unstable the students of elementary school high-grade are, the easier they are influenced by surrounding environments and feel sad to life pressures, which in turn, becoming more addictive to smartphone. This study presents an academic model which helps to figure out the relationship between smartphone addiction and personalities and demonstrate the demographic analysis to understand the current condition of smartphone addiction across high-grade students at elementary schools in Keelung City. The results give practical suggestions to education institute, parents, and student themselves respectively for addiction improvement. |
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