The reciprocal longitudinal relationships between mobile phone addiction and depressive symptoms among Korean adolescents. (May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jun, Sangmin
• Is Part Of: Computers in human behavior. Volume 58(2016)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 186
• Publication Date: 2016-05
• Subjects: Mobile phone addiction -- Depressive symptoms -- Autoregressive cross-lagged modeling -- Longitudinal data -- Korean adolescents; Interactive computer systems -- Periodicals; Man-machine systems -- Periodicals; 004.019
• DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.061
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0747-5632

Abstract

Abstract: This study aimed to (a) explore the stability of changes in mobile phone addiction and depressive symptoms across time and (b) clarify the direction of reciprocal longitudinal relationships between mobile phone addiction and depressive symptoms among Korean adolescents. We analyzed three-year longitudinal data from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute in Korea. A total of 1877 valid responses from 2011 to 2013 were analyzed using autoregressive cross-lagged modeling. We found that each mobile phone addiction and depressive symptom in earlier years was associated with increasing severity in these conditions consistently over the three years. In addition, we found that the relationships between mobile phone addiction and depressive symptoms were bidirectional over the three years. The significant implications for these findings in the context of adolescent behavior are also discussed. Highlights: Mobile phone addiction increased consistently over time. Depressive symptoms increased consistently over time. Mobile phone addiction affected depressive symptoms over time. Depressive symptoms influenced mobile phone addiction over time.