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Mediating effect of self-control in the relationship between internet addiction and internet ethics awareness in healthcare-related college students

보건계열 대학생이 지각하는 인터넷 윤리의식과 인터넷 중독성향과 관계에서 자기 통제력의 매개효과

  • Received : 2017.01.09
  • Accepted : 2017.02.26
  • Published : 2017.03.31
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Abstract

This research aims to investigate how healthcare professionals can control their behaviors in the internet and the status of their Internet addiction, thus emphasizing appropriate internet ethics awareness of students majoring in healthcare-related field, the future healthcare professionals. The goal of this research is to verify the mediating effect of self-control between the status of internet addiction of healthcare-related college students and their internet ethical awareness. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 236 students majoring in healthcare-related fields in 5 universities located in D city from March to April, 2016. The result of analyzing correlation of Internet addiction, internet ethics awareness, and self-control shows that self-control is negatively correlated with internet addiction but positively correlated with internet ethics awareness. The result of research suggests that self-control does have partial mediation effect on internet addiction and internet ethical awareness. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop mediator program that enhances self-control in order to improve internet ethical awareness of healthcare-related college students and develops measures to prevent addition to the internet, one of the primary cause of decline in internet ethics awareness.

본 연구는 보건계열 대학생을 대상으로 인터넷 중독성향, 인터넷 윤리의식 및 자기 통제력의 정도를 파악하고 자기 통제력의 매개효과를 검증하였다. 서술적 조사 연구로써 D시에 소재한 5개 대학교의 보건계열 재학생으로서, 인터넷 채팅으로 하루 평균 1시간 이상을 소요하고 있는 대학생 236명을 대상으로 2016년 3월 5일 부터 4월 30일 까지 설문지를 이용하여 자료 수집하였고, SPSS/WIN 21.0 프로그램을 이용하여 빈도, 백분율평균과 표준 편차 등의 기술 통계, 피어슨 상관계수 (Pearson's correlation coefficient), Baron과 Kenny (1986)의 매개 효과 검증 절차 및 소벨 검정(Sobel test)로 통계 처리하였다. 연구 결과, 보건계열 대학생의 인터넷 중독성향과 인터넷 윤리의식 관계에서 자기 통제력이 매개효과를 가지고 있음을 확인하였다. 이에 보건계열 대학생의 인터넷 중독성향으로 인해 낮아진 인터넷 윤리의식을 높이기 위해서는 인터넷 중독성향을 감소시키거나 예방하는 것이 필요하며, 인터넷 중독성향과 인터넷 윤리의식의 관계에서 매개효과를 보이는 자기 통제력이 인터넷 윤리의식을 높이기 위한 중요한 예측요인으로 다루어져야 함을 시사하였다.

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