Effects of smartphone addiction prevention program on smartphone addiction tendency and self-control of children using local children’s centers

Abstract

The current research takes those children using local children’s centers as subjects of research, and aims to identify the effect of preventive education programs for smartphone addiction on their addiction and self-control. SPSS version 22.0 for Windows was used for data analysis to develop kinder teacher treatment play therapy for kindergarten children. Among nonparametric statistical methods, the Mann-Whitney U Test and the Wilcoxon Singed-Rank Test were conducted. The results of this study are summarized as follows. The analysis of the subjects’ smartphone addiction found that the educational program did produce a significant difference. Second, it was also found in the examination of the preventive educational program on the subjects’ self-control that a significant increase was obtained in all the 6 factors of thoughtfulness, task tolerance, resistance against temptations, emotional control, friend-related control and teacher-related control. This study shows that it is expected that further researches would follow with a group of lower-class elementary students and ordinary children to come a more generalized conclusion.