영유아 자녀 스마트폰 사용에 대한 부모의 인식 연구 = A Study on the Awareness of Parents about Smartphone Use by Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

본 연구의 목적은 영유아 자녀를 둔 부모들이 어떠한 상황에서 자녀에게 스마트폰을 제공하는지, 아울러 스마트폰을 제공하는 것에 대해 부모들은 어떠한 인식을 가지고 있는지를 구체적으로 알아 보고자 함에 있다. 연구를 수행하기 위하여 영유아 부모 14명을 선정해 심층면담을 진행하였다. 본연구의 결과 첫째, 부모들이 자녀에게 스마트폰을 제공하는 상황을 크게 통제의 목적, 대리보모 역할, 행동 보상, 자녀의 요구로 나타낼 수 있었다. 둘째, 부모들은 자녀에게 스마트폰을 제공하기 전과 후로 나누어 규칙을 나타내었다. 셋째, 대부분의 부모들은 자녀의 스마트폰 사용에 대해 긍정적, 부정적 인식들을 가지고 있었다. 긍정적인 요소에는 스마트폰으로 자녀의 교육적 효과를 보았다는 점과 손위형제, 또래와의 교류인 점을 꼽았고, 부정적인 요소에는 스마트폰의 중독성, 전자파, 선정 성, 두뇌건강, 폭력성, 시력저하의 문제들을 이야기하였다. 넷째, 자녀의 올바른 스마트폰 사용에 대한 부모교육에 대해서도 부모들은 요청하였다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to examine in what situations parents of infants, toddlers or preschoolers provided their preschool children with smartphones and how they looked at providing smartphones. Currently using smartphones of infants, toddlers or preschoolers getting increased and the age of children start to do that at earlier ages. Children who use smartphones are not the owners of the smartphones. They are the possession of their parents, and whether infants, toddlers or preschoolers use smartphones or not depends on the decision of their parents. Meanwhile, in most earlier studies, a quantitative research was implemented by questionnaire method to find out the exposure of infants, toddlers and preschoolers to smartphones, but they failed to offer detailed explanation on that. In order to determine what measures should be taken to let young children use smartphones properly, it’s not just enough to investigate their exposure to smartphone. How parents allow their children to use smartphones and what they think of it should closely be examined. Two research questions were posed in this study:
1. In what situations do parents provide their preschool children with smartphones?
2. What do they think about their children’s use of smartphones?
14 selected parents who had one or more infants, toddlers or preschoolers were interviewed in depth, and it seemed that the parents took a liberal view of child rearing.
The major findings of the study were as follows:
First, there were largely four different situations that the parents provided their children with smartphones: for the purpose of control, to serve as substitutive parents, as a reward or to satisfy children’s needs.
Second, the parents made rules for their children to abide by after they provided them with smartphones.
Third, most of the parents took both positive and negative views of their children’s smartphone use. At that point of time, the survey was conducted to look for connections between their view of child rearing and awareness of their children’s smartphone use. A mixed research was implemented to determine the relationship between the two, but there wasn’t any significant link between them.
Although the effort produced no significant results, this study is of great significance in terms of research methodology in that it tried to apply another research method during data collection, which wasn’t initially planned in the stage of research design.
Fourth, the parents asked for parent education about the right use of smartphone among children.
The way the parents looked at their children’s smartphone use was various. Nowadays, parents allow their children to use smartphones due to their changing values and view of education, and children start to do that at earlier ages. This fact suggests that more parent education should be offered to prevent infants, toddlers or preschoolers from smartphone overuse.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 연구방법
• Ⅲ. 연구 결과 및 해석
• Ⅳ. 결론 및 논의