대학생의 공허감과 스마트폰 과의존 간의 관계: 경험회피의 매개효과와 지각된 사회적 지지의 조절된 매개효과

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of experience avoidance in the effect of emptiness on smartphone dependence, and the controlled mediating effect of perceived social support in the effect of emptiness and experience avoidance on smartphone dependence. To this end, a questionnaire on the smartphone dependence scale, the experience avoidance scale, the perceived social support scale, and the emptiness scale was conducted on 281 college students sampled from the online community. As a result of the analysis, it was found that experiential avoidance partially mediates the relationship between emptiness and smartphone dependence. This means that high emptiness increases the level of experiential avoidance, which can lead to a higher level of smartphone dependence. In the effect of emptiness on smartphone dependence through experience avoidance, the controlled mediating effect of perceived social support was not significant. In other words, regardless of perceived social support, the higher the experiential avoidance, the higher the dependence on the smartphone. This study is significant in that it has confirmed the emotional and cognitive processes involved in college students' smartphone dependence, suggesting that intervention in experiential avoidance is important to alleviate this. Finally, the limitations and suggestions of this study were discussed.