Association between psychological mindsets of university students and Over-Dependency on smartphone

This study intended to identify the association between psychological mindsets of university students and gender with overdependence on smartphone.

It is a test developed by Young's the Center for On-line Addiction. Questions include obsessive behaviors associated with Internet or telecommunication, change of interpersonal features, current work, controlling ability, behavioral problems, and emotional change. Reliability coefficient in this study was set to.95.

To perform this, results from this study among 150 male and female university students are presented as follows. First, the difference of smartphone overdependence according to gender showed that men showed higher scores than women. Second, the difference of subfactors on psychological mindsets according to gender revealed that other factors except for behavior understanding were different. Third, the association between psychological mindset and Internet addiction suggested that behavior understanding among psychological mindset subfactors affected smartphone overdependence.

This study has significant implications as findings from this study demonstrated the difference of smartphone overdependence according to their psychological mindsets. It is assumed that this will be basic data for educational program for preventing smartphone overdependence and enhancing the level of psychological mindsets.