Authors : Yang-E Kim, Hye-Jeong Choi and Hye-Sook Lee
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to discover the relation among teenager’s parental attachment, cell phone dependence and self-esteem and verify the mediator effect of self-esteem during this process in order to suggest theoretical and practical alternatives. The research questions to identify this purpose are as follows. First, what effects do parental attachment and self-esteem have on teenager’s cell phone dependence? Second, does self-esteem mediate the effect that parental attachment has on teenager’s cell phone dependence? For this, data were collected from 246 middle school students residing in Korea and they were analyzed through structural equation. The result of analysis showed that first, both parental attachment and self-esteem had a negative (-) effect on teenager’s cell phone dependence. Second, self-esteem fully mediated parental attachment and cell phone dependence. This means parental attachment functions as a protection factor that can reduce teenager’s cell phone dependence via self-esteem. Based on this result, convergence intervention and practical strategy are suggested to prevent teenager’s cell phone dependence.
Yang-E Kim, Hye-Jeong Choi and Hye-Sook Lee, 2017. The Effect of Parental Attachment of Teenagers on Cell-Phone Dependence: Focusing on Mediator Effect of Self-Esteem. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 5699-5703.