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서울사이버대학교 상담심리학과

Background: As the number of smartphone users is increasing, smartphone addiction is a recent concern. The
purpose of the present study was to examine the mediating effect of loneliness on the relationship between
smartphone addiction and dependent/ avoidant personality trait in Adults.
Methods: A total of 550 adults (male 116, female 434) were selected and rated smartphone addiction scale, dependent and avoidant personality trait scales, and loneliness scale. Pearson correlation coefficients, Structural
Equation Model Analysis and Sobel test using SPSS version 21.0 (IBM, New York, NY, USA) and AMOS version 21.0 (IBM, New York, NY, USA) were conducted.
Results: Dependent and avoidant personality significantly were related smartphone addiction and loneliness.
Finding in structural equation modeling indicated that the loneliness partially mediated the relationship between
dependent personality and smartphone addiction, but did not mediated the relationship between avoidant personality and smartphone addiction.
Conclusions: This study confirmed partial mediation effect of loneliness on the relationship between smartphone addiction and dependent personality. This finding suggests that future intervention for smartphone addiction should focus on reducing of loneliness and proper coping with loneliness.
Korean J Health Promot 2016;16(4):260-267
Keywords: Smartphone addiction, Dependent personality, Avoidant personality, Loneliness