초등 과학영재와 일반학생의 스마트폰 중독 경향성과 정신건강 비교

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the smart phone addiction proneness and mental health of the scientifically gifted and the general elementary school students. The survey was carried out for the 111 general elementary students and 111 gifted students (222 in total) about the mental health as well as self-diagnosis of smart phone addiction and its proneness. The results were as follows: First, neither the gifted nor the general students were highly addictive in the self-diagnosis. It was not only because it was a short time smart phones were commercialized but also because elementary students had less chances and time of smart phone use comparing middle-high school students. Second, there was no significant difference between the two groups in addiction proneness. Even in the subgroups of addiction proneness, there was no statistical differences. And there was also no significant differences between the two groups in mental health. It was noticed, however, the science-gifted had some significant differences in 'personality disorder' among subgroups. It seemed that the traits of the gifted, such as the desire for winning or achieving recognition from others, contributed to the result and it wasn't irrelevant to the immersion and obsession of their tasks that the gifted had. Third, there was no significant difference in addiction proneness according to the gender as well. But some differences between the boys and the girls were shown in 'anxiety disorder' and 'personality disorder' among the subgroups of mental health. Fourth, comparing two groups from the time of smart phone use, there were significant differences in both overall scores and subgroups of addiction proneness. In addition, significant differences came out in mental health especially with "anger explosive tendency", "anxiety disorder" and "signs of paranoia". It seemed that the time of smart phone use had the most influential in addiction proneness and mental health for the gifted.