본 연구의 목적은 스마트폰 중독 예방을 위한 활동을 개발하고 어머니의 스마트폰 중독수준, 양육효능감, 양육스트레스에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 하였다. 연구대상은 스마트폰중독 자가진단 척도 검사를 통해 선별된 잠재적 위험 사용자군인 어머니 52명을 대상으로 하였다. 경기도 북부 지역의 유아교육기관에 다니는 만3세～5세 자녀를 둔 어머니들로 총 52명 참가자를 각 각 26명씩 실험집단과 통제집단으로 나누었다. 연구도구는 스마트폰 중독 자가진단척도, 양육효능감 척도, 양육스트레스 검사를 사용하였다. 실험집단 어머니들에게는 10회기의 스마트폰 중독 예방 활동을 실시하였고, 활동의 효과를 알아보기 위하여 공분산분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과는 첫째, 스마트폰 중독 예방활동으로 스마트폰 사용 잠재적 위험자군이 일반사용자군으로 중독수준이 낮아졌으며 스마트폰 중독 하위요인 일상생활장애, 금단요인에서 집단 간 유의미한 차이를 보였다. 둘째, 스마트폰 중독 예방 활동이 부모의 양육효능감 하위요인 놀이, 애정, 일상체계조직요인에서 집단 간 유의미한 차이를 보였다. 셋째, 부모의 양육스트레스 하위요인인 부모의 고통, 역기능적 상호작용 요인에서 집단 간 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 나타났다. 또한 스마트폰 중독 예방활동은 부모의 고통에 대한 스트레스를 경감시키고, 자녀와의 역기능적 상호작용에 대한 스트레스도 낮추는 것으로 나타났다.

The use of smartphones is increasing throughout the world and while they are wonderful instruments in many ways, saving time, allowing for instant knowledge and even, saving lives, they can also be lastingly detrimental to our societal and personal lives. Addressing one such detrimental way, this study looks at the effects of smart phone addiction prevention activities in terms of mothers` smartphone addiction, their parenting efficacy, and parenting stress. The activities were implemented in 10 sessions with 52 mothers with children aged 3 to 5 years of age in attendance at early childhood institutions in northern GyeongGi-Do. The mothers had been identified as potentially at-risk users because of their level of smartphone use as ascertained by the Smartphone Addiction Scale. The 52 mothers were evenly divided into an experimental group and a comparison group. In addition to the Self-Rated Smartphone Addiction Scale, a Parenting Efficacy Scale, and a Parenting Stress Scale were used. Collected data were analyzed with ANCOVA to examine the effects of the prevention activities. Analyses of the data are as follows. 1) In post-tests, mothers in the experimental group scored significantly lower than the comparison group in smartphone addiction sub-factors such as ‘disturbance of daily living’ and ‘forbidden phenomenon’. Moreover the addictive inclination of the experimental group mothers was lower than those in the comparison group. 2) The experimental group exhibited higher parenting efficacy overall than did the comparison group, however, in the ’discipline’ and ‘education ‘sub-factors of parenting efficacy, there was no difference between the experimental group and the comparison group, but in the ‘play’, ‘affection’ and ‘day to day system organization’ sub-factors of parenting efficacy, the experimental group mothers rated significantly higher than mothers in the comparison group. 3) With regard to the parenting stress factor, there was no difference between the experimental group and the comparison group in terms of the ‘difficult child’ sub-factor, however, the sub-factors, ‘distress of the parent’ and ‘dysfunctional interaction with the child’, were greatly reduced in the experimental group after the prevention activities. This success of the prevention activities is recommendation enough to design and implement more of them and to increase efforts to educate parents, young students and the public in general about the dangers of smartphone addiction and how to prevent it and/or cure it.