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ABSTRACT



A Study on the Influence of the Internet Addiction
from the Environmental Characteristic Variables
- Focused on the Youth -


Deog-Hwan, Cha


Department of Electronic Commerce
Graduate School, Kongju National University
Kong ju, Koera


(Supervised by Professor Jong-Ho, Lee)




In the knowledge information society, digital literacy is highly regarded. The ability to process and utilize information is necessary exceeding the level of simply collecting information. Such a situation of the times has increased Internet utilization by youths in ordinary life. The quickly growing Internet environment has already been part of our lives so much so that almost everything in life itself is associated with the Internet. In particular, the recent promotion of e-commerce has popularized commercial transactions through Internet shopping malls. Accordingly, the justification for establishing the right habits of Internet use for youths, potential customers of e-commerce, is being raised.
This study conducted research in order to reduce Internet addiction and to establish right habits of Internet use for youths by seeking environmental characteristic variables that are attributable to the Internet addiction of youths. As environmental characteristic variables for explaining the Internet addiction of youths, the study selected the family variable, the school variable, the Internet variable, and the self variable, and also chose an interpersonal relationship skill variable as a parameter.
The study conducted a covariance structure modeling analysis by establishing a research model. The study performed an empirical analysis by setting up 7 research hypotheses and 8 sub-hypotheses. As a result, concerning significantly influential environmental characteristic variables to Internet addiction, the school variable and the interpersonal relationship skill variable were discovered to serve as suppressing variables that reduced Internet addiction, and the Internet variable was found to serve as an inducing variable in increasing Internet addiction.
As a result of verifying the mediation effect of an interpersonal relationship skill variable in the relationship among the following: the family variable, the school variable, the Internet variable, and the self variable; the variables of Internet addiction, the family variable, the school variable, the Internet variable, and the self variable were interpreted to serve as a mediation variable by indirectly affecting Internet addiction in the medium of an interpersonal relationship skill variable.
As a result, various activities are required in order to prevent Internet addiction and to prevent Internet addiction of those addicted to the Internet. Specifically, it is required to have strategies that diminish the influence of Internet variables that provoke Internet addiction and to promote variables, which reduce Internet addiction, such as the school variable and the interpersonal relationship skill variable. As a way of preventing Internet addiction, based on educational field experience, it is necessary to practice information communication ethics education, various club activities, netiquette education, and Internet addiction prevention programs, and to establish the right Internet utilization for youths.

Key words : Internet addiction, environmental characteristic variables, influential variables for Internet addiction, interpersonal relationship skill, youths

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목 차
• I. 서론 1
• 1. 연구의 필요성 1
• 2. 연구의 목적 3
• 3. 연구의 제한점 4
• II. 이론적 배경 5
• 1. 인터넷 중독 실태 5
• 2. 인터넷 중독의 제반 증상 6
• 3. 인터넷 중독 선행연구 8
• 4. 인터넷 중독과 대인관계기술 16
• 5. 인터넷 중독 환경특성요인 19
• 6. 인터넷 중독 측정 39
• 7. 개념적 모형 40
• III. 연구의 설계 42
• 1. 연구 모형과 가설설정 42
• 2. 연구의 방법 56
• IV. 결과 및 해석 66
• 1. 조사대상자의 일반적 특성 66
• 2. 자료 분석 방법 68
• 3. 요인분석 70
• 4. 연구가설 검증 78
• 5. 논의 87
• Ⅴ. 결론 및 제언 94
• 1. 결론 94
• 2. 제언 99
• 참고문헌 100
• ABSTRACT 117
• 설문지 120