Impact of Perceived Parenting Styles on Depression and Smartphone Addition in College Students

Tae Jung Yoo; Suk-Sun Kim

doi:10.12934/jkpmhn.2015.24.2.127

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Yoo and Kim: Impact of Perceived Parenting Styles on Depression and Smartphone Addition in College Students

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2015; 24(2): 127-135.

Published online: 30 June 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2015.24.2.127

Impact of Perceived Parenting Styles on Depression and Smartphone Addition in College Students

Tae Jung Yoo¹, Suk-Sun Kim²

¹Division of Nursing Science, Ewha Womans University · Seoul Women's College of Nursing, Seoul, Korea.

²Division of Nursing Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Kim, Suk-Sun. Division of Nursing Science, College of Health Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea. Tel: +82-2-3277-2885, Fax: +82-2-3277-2850, suksunkim@ewha.ac.kr

Received 15 April 2015 Revised 23 June 2015 Accepted 24 June 2015

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Abstract

Purpose

The purposes of this study were to examine differences in depression and smartphone addiction among four styles of perceived parenting, and determine whether the perceptions of paternal and maternal parenting are associated with depression and smartphone addiction among college students.

Methods

A cross-sectional descriptive correlational design was used. A convenience sample of 378 undergraduate students responded to the survey. Data were analyzed using ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression with IBM SPSS statistics version 21.

Results

Levels of depression and smartphone addiction were significantly different according to the four styles of perceived parenting (optimal parenting, affectionate constraint parenting, affectionless control parenting, and neglectful parenting). Scores of depression and smartphone addiction in the group with perceived affectionless control parenting were higher than those in the other groups. In a regression model, maternal care and paternal overprotection were significantly associated with depression. Also, maternal overprotection was the only significant predictor of smartphone addiction.

Conclusion

These results suggest that students who perceive that both fathers and mothers are low in care, warmth, and support; but high in overprotection, control and intrusiveness are vulnerable to depression and smartphone addiction. Targeted interventions to change and reframe students' perception of paternal and maternal parenting in a positive way may reduce their depression and smartphone addiction.

Keywords: Parenting, Depression, Cell phones, Behavior addictive, Young adult

Figures and Tables

Table 1

General Characteristics and Descriptive Statistics of Study Variables (N=378)

^*Measured according to the PBI (Care range=0 to 36; higher scores indicate higher Care); ^†Measured according to the PBI (Overprotection range=0 to 39; higher scores indicate higher Overprotection); ^‡Measured according to the S-Scale (range=15 to 60; higher scores indicate Smartphone Addiction).

Table 2

Differences of Depression and Smartphone Addiction by Four Styles of Perceived Parenting (N=378)

OP=Optimal parenting; ACP=Affectionate constraint parenting; ALCP=Affectionless control parenting; NP=Neglectful parenting; ^*Measured according to the CES-D (range=0 to 60; higher scores indicate higher depression); ^†Measured according to the S-Scale (range=15 to 60; higher scores indicate smartphone addiction); ^‡Measured according to the PBI.

Table 3

Correlations among Perception of Parenting, Depression and Smartphone Addiction (N=378)

Table 4

Regression Results for Influence of Perception of Parenting on Depression and Smartphone Addiction (N=378)

Notes

This is manuscript is based on a part of the first author's doctoral dissertation from Ewha Womans University.

It is supported by the Hanmaeum Scholarship from the Seoul Nurses Association.

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