| Summary: | 碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 教育研究所 === 102 === The current study aimed to investigate the status quo of smartphone usage among junior high school students, differences in smartphone usage among junior high school students with different background variables, and the relationship between smartphone addiction and emotional management.
A questionnaire survey was employed in the current study for data collection. Data analysis included descriptive analysis, One-way ANOVA, t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and regression analysis. The results were as follows:
1.With regard to degree of smartphone addiction among junior high school students, no significant differences were found in gender and grade.
2.Significant difference was found in personality with respect to degree of smartphone addiction. Extrovert students were more addicted to using smartphones than their introvert counterparts.
3.Significant difference was found in interpersonal interaction, with higher tendency towards smartphone addiction leading to lower interpersonal interaction and self-cognition.
4.Significant differences existed in days of using smartphones, daily usage hours, and holiday usage hours. The longer junior high school students used smartphones, the higher the degree of addiction as well as tendency towards addiction.
5.Purposes of using smartphones was a significant factor, with male students enjoying its recreational and entertaining functions and female students preferring online chatting to increase interpersonal relationship.
6.In terms of emotional management, junior high school students who had used smartphones performed significant lower than those who had not used smartphones.
7.With regard to degree of smartphone addiction and emotional management among junior high school students, cognition strategies, seeking assistance and meta-strategies reached the significant level and the results yielded a highly negative correlation. The higher the degree of addiction, the less stable the emotional management.
8.The degree of smartphone addiction could be used to predict emotional management. The higher the degree of smartphone addiction, the lower the emotional management.
Suggestions for schools and parents on communicating relevant information to junior high school students were also discussed.
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