Abstract Thinking, Risk-taking, and Impulsivity: Implication for the Smart Phone Addiction of Adolescent

Time perspective is defined as one of personality traits. According to the time perspective theory, when educating students, teachers tend to encourage them to have the future time perspective instead of the present time perspective because the present time perspective causes risky behaviors of the...

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Published inInternational Information Institute (Tokyo). Information Vol. 17; no. 10(B); p. 5175
Main Authors Hyun, Jung Suk, Park, Chan Jung, Lee, Kyong Eun, Kim, Jung Yoon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Koganei International Information Institute 01.10.2014
Subjects
Academic achievement
Addictions
Addictive behaviors
Behavior
Cognitive style
Impulsivity
Polls & surveys
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Smartphones
Teachers
South Korea
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Summary:Time perspective is defined as one of personality traits. According to the time perspective theory, when educating students, teachers tend to encourage them to have the future time perspective instead of the present time perspective because the present time perspective causes risky behaviors of the students. In addition, the risky behaviors are related to addictions. Recently, smart phone addiction is one of the annoying problems for adolescent. Teachers should devise good ways to lessen students' addiction level and to lengthen their future time perspectives. However, present time perspective is not always negative in our lives. In this paper, we analyze the present hedonism more in detail and determine the relationship among the present hedonism, abstract thinking ability, and academic achievement of adolescent. To achieve our research goals, we surveyed the high school students of South Korea. As the results, we found that risk-taking feature of the present time perspective can enhance students' academic achievement unlike impulsivity. Also, we found that increasing the abstract thinking levels of the students can help to reduce the students' smart phone addiction.
ISSN:1343-4500
1344-8994