기혼 성인남녀의 인터넷·스마트폰 과다사용에 영향을 미치는 개인심리·부부관계 관련변인

The Effects of Psychological & Marital Variables on the Overuse of the Internet & Smartphones in Married Adults

This study examined the effects of individuals’ psychological and marital variables on his or heroveruse of internet and smartphones among 165 married adults in their 20s to 40s living in Busan. The participants completed a self-administered questionnaire including the Differentiation of SelfScale, R-UCLA Loneliness Scale, Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale, Intention to Divorce Scale,K-Scale for Internet Addiction, and S-Scale for Smartphone Addiction with a demographicquestionnaire. The major findings of this study are as follows: First, the proportion of high-risk internetoverusers was 16.4%, while 22.4 percent of the participants had problems with overusing theirsmartphones. Second, the hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that married adults withlower levels of self-differentiation and marital satisfaction were more likely to overuse the internet,while those who were male with higher levels of loneliness and lower levels of marital satisfactionwere more likely to overuse their smartphones. The implications of these results are discussed forhealthy technology use and marital relationships.