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Moderating Effects of Parental Monitoring in the Relationship between Children's Dependency on Mobile Phones and Control of Learning Behavior

아동의 휴대전화 의존과 학습행동 통제 간의 관계에서 부모감독의 조절효과

  • Cho, Yoonju (Department of Child Studies, Chongshin University)
  • Received : 2012.12.31
  • Accepted : 2013.02.28
  • Published : 2013.04.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating effects of parental monitoring on the relationship between children's dependency on mobile phones and control of learning behavior. The data came from the 2010 Korean Children and Youth Panel (N = 1,609) conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute. The analysis method used was Structural Equation Modeling by using SPSS 17.0 and AMOS 7.0. To test the significant moderating effects, Ping's two-step technique, which is free from the requirement of nonlinear constraints, was used. Our results demonstrated that children's dependency on mobile phones had negative effects on control of learning behavior, and the interaction effects between such dependency and parental monitoring affected the control of learning behavior. Thus, these results proved the moderating effects of parental monitoring in the control of learning behavior. This study suggests that parental monitoring buffers against having difficulties to control and adjust one's behavior associated with control of learning behavior, which is affected by the dependency on mobile phones among children. We discussed that the risks of children's dependency on mobile phones and parental monitoring should be acknowledge as a significant protective factor.

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