The Relative Importance of Teenagers’ Personal Characteristics on Technology Addiction

Chan Jung Park, Jung Suk Hyun

2012

Abstract

As the Internet becomes the major means to conduct business, new types of agenda arise in e-Business arena. One of them is Ethics. Compared to other topics, ethics education for e-services takes long time because of its characteristics. Thus, Cyberethics education is required from childhood. In this paper, we examine the status of the Korean teenagers’ technology addiction, their personal characteristics, and their environmental factors composed of parents, friends, and media to diagnose their behavior and to boost their morality. In order to achieve our research goals, we survey 1,421 primary and secondary school students, and then do factor, regression, and dominance analyses. Also, we examine the relationships between the students’ characteristics and their technology addiction. We focus on the Internet and mobile phone addiction as technology addiction. Based on this study, we summarize a few issues to be solved for our adolescents to do their right actions on e-environment.

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Jung Park C. and Suk Hyun J. (2012). The Relative Importance of Teenagers’ Personal Characteristics on Technology Addiction . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-23-5, pages 103-108. DOI: 10.5220/0004026301030108


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@conference{ice-b12,
author={Chan Jung Park and Jung Suk Hyun},
title={The Relative Importance of Teenagers’ Personal Characteristics on Technology Addiction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={103-108},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004026301030108},
isbn={978-989-8565-23-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012)
TI - The Relative Importance of Teenagers’ Personal Characteristics on Technology Addiction
SN - 978-989-8565-23-5
AU - Jung Park C.
AU - Suk Hyun J.
PY - 2012
SP - 103
EP - 108
DO - 10.5220/0004026301030108