Examination of the Relationship between Adolescents’ Subjective Well-Being and Parenting Styles and Smartphone Addiction by Several Variables.

Abstract

Aim of this research is to examine the relationship between adolescents' subjective well-being and parenting style and smartphone addiction by several variables. The research population was composed of high school students studying in Kocaeli province in the academic year of 2017-2018. The sample was composed of 671 adolescents attending 6 different high schools which were randomly chosen out of this population. 313 (46.6%) of the participants are female, 358 (53.4%) of them are male. Relational survey model was used in the research. Data were collected using Personal Information Form, Smartphone Addiction Scale, Adolescent Subjective Well-Being Scale and Parenting Style Inventory. It was found in the research that participants' smartphone addiction levels did not differ statistically and significantly by gender, whether parents were together or divorced, and parental income. A negative significant relationship was found between academic achievement and smartphone addiction. According to the analysis results, as the smartphone usage duration extended, smartphone addiction level increased. The results of the analysis conducted to determine whether smartphone addiction was predicted by adolescents' subjective well-beings and the parenting styles (acceptance/involvement, psychological autonomy and strictness/supervision) showed that all variables other than parental acceptance were negative significant predictors of smartphone addiction. It was concluded that subjective well-being was the most important predictor of smartphone addiction.

Investigation of Smartphone Addiction Levels Among University Students

“…Aljomaa et al (2016) and Mohammadbeigi et al (2016) stated that male students were addicted more, while Bal and Balcı (2020), Gündoğmuş, Taşdelen Kul and Çoban (2020) and Celikkalp et al (2020) stated that female students were addicted more. In some studies, no significant difference was found in terms of gender (Kula et al, 2020;Yıldırım and Ayas, 2020;Minaz and Çetinkaya Bozkurt, 2017;Kumcagiz and Gündüz, 2016). In the context of the sample examined, it is thought that this result stems from the fact that male students spend more time in using smartphones than female students, and differences in their intended use.…”

“…When the smartphone addiction levels of university students were analyzed according to the average daily smartphone usage time, it was observed that the students with high smartphone usage also had high addiction levels. Researches also showed that the usage of smartphones, which covers the daily duration of smartphone use and how many times a smartphone is checked, has a significant effect on smartphone addiction (Yıldırım and Ayas, 2020;Gökçearslan et al 2016). Students' fear of not being online and losing communication causes students to be busy with their smartphones for longer periods of time.…”

“…Researches on smartphone addiction levels among young people focus on psychological variables (Pamuk and Kutlu, 2017) such smartphone usage time, gender and age (Gezgin et al, 2018;Konan, Durmuş, Ağıroğlu and Türkoğlu, 2018;Chen, Liu, Ding, Ying, Wang and Wen, 2017;Van Deursen et al, 2015), type of content engaged or the purpose of smartphone usage (Kuss et al, 2013;Salehan and Negahban, 2013), academic success (Yalçın et al, 2020;Samaha and Hawi, 2016), loneliness (Aktaş and Yılmaz, 2017;Gezgin, Ümmet and Hamutoğlu, 2020), satisfaction with life (Kula, Ayhan, Kaçay and Soyer, 2020;Kuang-Tsan and Fu-Yuan, 2018;Samaha and Hawi, 2016), subjective well-being (Yıldırım and Ayas, 2020), stress and social anxiety (Enez Darcin et al, 2016;Sapacz, Rockman, & Clark, 2016;Van Deursen et al, 2015;Chiu, 2014;Lee et al, 2014). It is also stated that smartphone addiction is associated with pathological personality traits such as impulsivity and neuroticism (Carvalho, Sette and Ferrari, 2018).…”

The Degree of Contribution of Patterns of Mothers’ Treatment to the Emotional Balance of Kindergarten Children

“…The study (Yildirim & Ayas, 2020) aimed to reveal the relationship between psychological well-being, parenting pattern (parenting), and smartphone addiction among school students in Kocaeli province in Turkey. The sample consisted of 671 male and female students in the secondary stage, who are studying in six different secondary schools, who were randomly selected; a smartphone addiction scale, psychological well-being scale, and parenting pattern scale were applied to them.…”

“…In addition, some studies examined emotional balance independently in Arab and foreign environments and on various samples, primary and secondary, university stage and on mothers, or with other variables such as the study (Yagnik, 2013;Kumar & Al-Tamawi, 2017;Hamad, 2019). As for the studies that dealt with the methods of parental treatment and its relationship to emotional balance, they were on older ages, such as high school and university students, and in different environments, such as the study of Al-Khouribi (2002), Ibraim (2011, Amara and Bouisha (2013), Al-Rawahieh (2016), Al-Tamawi (2020 and Al-Qaisi (2020) and Yildirim and Ayas (2020), and some of them are on verbally striking children, such as the study of Al-Ghadani (2014).…”