The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mobile phone addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement in elementary school students. The following are questions which are established in order to carry out the purpose of th...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mobile phone addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement in elementary school students. The following are questions which are established in order to carry out the purpose of this research
First, is there any difference in mobile phone addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement according to gender?
Second, is there any difference in mobile phone addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement according to grade?
Third, is there any interrelationship with mobile phone addiction, self-control, and scholastic achievement?
In order to examine the problems 397 students, who are mobile users in the fifth and sixth grades at S elementary school located in Okcheon, were selected to conduct mobile addiction diagnostic tests used by Hae-jin Jang(2002), and self control tests used by Hyun-mi Nam(1999). In order to measure the scholastic achievement, the final-term scholastic achievement test assessed in 2009 is used.
The result of this research is as follows.
First, according to the students' gender, the level of the mobile phone addiction wasn't different. Whereas female students were higher then male students in scholastic achivement. (As for long-term satisfaction of the self-control, it was shown that there is a meaningful relationship according to the students' gender.)
Second, it was shown that there isn't a meaningful difference in the self-control and the scholastic achivement. Whereas the 6th grade students of elementary school were higher then the 5th in with drawal symptoms, the difficulty of using control and sub-variables of mobile phone addiction.
Third, the degree of the mobile phone addiction has a relationship with long-term satisfaction of self-contol and scholastic achievement. The more students pursue long-term satisfaction and self-control, the higher their scholastic achivements are.
In conclusion, this research shows that students' self-control has a meaningful correlation with scholastic achievement, although students are highly addicted to mobile phones. In addition, the ability of students' to use self-control has an effect on scholastic achievement. This suggested that the development of students' higher self-control can protect the decline of academic ability caused by mobile phone addiction.