Association between high adolescent smartphone use and academic impairment, conflicts with family members or friends, and suicide attempts

This study aims to evaluate the association between smartphone use and suicide attempts, independent of possible confounders, including conflicts with family/friends and poor academic performance due to smartphone use. Data were obtained from the 2017 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, a na...

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Published in:PloS one 2019-07, Vol.14 (7), p.e0219831-e0219831
Main Authors: Kim, Min-Hyuk, Min, Seongho, Ahn, Joung-Sook, An, Chisoo, Lee, Jinhee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Academic Success
Addictions
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adolescents
Behavior
Biology and Life Sciences
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Child health
Disease control
Engineering and Technology
Family
Family relations
Female
Friends
Gender differences
Health Surveys
High school students
Humans
Impulsivity
Internet
Male
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental disorders
Mental health
Middle and junior high school students
Odds Ratio
People and Places
Polls & surveys
Psychopathology
Regression analysis
Republic of Korea
Risk taking
Smart phones
Smartphone
Smartphones
Social aspects
Social networks
Social Sciences
Studies
Suicide
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
Suicides & suicide attempts
Surveys
Teenagers
Time Factors
University students
Young adults
Youth
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Summary:This study aims to evaluate the association between smartphone use and suicide attempts, independent of possible confounders, including conflicts with family/friends and poor academic performance due to smartphone use. Data were obtained from the 2017 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, a nationally representative survey of middle- and high-school students (N = 62,276). Time spent using a smartphone was divided into four categories: less than 1 h, 1-2 h, 3-4 h, and 5 h or more a day. The association of conflicts with family due to smartphone use, conflicts with friends due to smartphone use, and poor academic performance due to smartphone use with suicide attempts and time spent using a smartphone were analyzed using multiple and binary logistic regression analyses, respectively. The relationship between time spent on a smartphone and suicide attempts was analyzed using a multiple logistic regression analysis. All analyses were also stratified according to the main purpose of smartphone use (process purposes/social purposes). Conflicts with family/friends due to smartphone use was significantly associated with suicide attempts (P
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0219831