TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Longitudinal cross-lagged analysis between mobile phone dependence, friendships, and depressive symptoms among Korean adolescents
JO  - Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
A1  - Choe, Chung
A1  - Yu, Seunghee
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This study examined reciprocal longitudinal effects between mobile phone dependence, friendships, and depressive symptoms using 3-year longitudinal data from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey. An autoregressive cross-lagged model was applied to a sample of 1,737 adolescents. <br><br>RESULTS suggested that unidirectional relationships exist between the three variables: friendships reduce mobile phone dependence (B = -0.068, p = 0.058; B = -0.118, p < 0.001) and depressive symptoms increase mobile phone dependence (B = 0.082, p = 0.001; B = 0.128, p < 0.001); however, mobile phone dependence does not affect friendships and depressive symptoms. In addition, this study provided evidence of the negative bidirectional relationship between friendships and depressive symptoms. We suggest that, to prevent or treat adolescents' mobile phone dependence, a practical approach regarding friendships and depressive symptoms is needed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2152-2715
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2022.0015
ID  - ref1
ER  -