Psychiatry Investig.  2021 Feb;18(2):126-131. 10.30773/pi.2020.0338.

The Relationship between Mother’s Smartphone Addiction and Children’s Smartphone Usage

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea
  • 2Department of Psychology, Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 3Department of Psychiatry, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea
  • 4Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Abstract


Objective
As smartphone use is becoming more common, the age of initial exposure to devices is becoming younger. Young children’s screen use is influenced by various factors; it is more directly dependent on family environment than school-aged children. Our study aimed to examine the effect of mother’s smartphone addition on their child’s smartphone use.
Methods
Participants were from the Kids Cohort for Understanding of internet addiction Risk factors in early childhood (K-CURE) study. Adult smartphone addiction self-diagnosis scale was used to evaluate smartphone addiction degree of mother. Child’s smartphone use was assessed by parental questionnaire. Using logistic regression analysis, we examine the association between mother’s smartphone addiction and child’s smartphone use.
Results
After adjusting for other factors, mother’s smartphone addiction is related with early smartphone exposure of children. Highrisk group’s children was exposed to smartphone earlier than low risk group (adjusted OR, 0.418; p=0.021). Contrary to expectation, there is no correlation between mother’s smartphone addiction and child’s smartphone use time.
Conclusion
Our study explain that mother’s smartphone addiction can affect early smartphone exposure on children. Based on our findings, further study might explore the effect of early smartphone exposure on children.

Keyword

Smartphone overuse, Preschool children, Mother’s smartphone addition
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