The number of the adolescents who are addicted to smartphones day by day due to a drastically increased penetration rate of smartphones. Adolescents’indiscreet usage for smartphones can be an obstacle in daily lives and affect negatively their physical, psychological and social developments. Each government and academic world are implementing group counseling program for adolescents’smartphone addiction cure and reporting the effect. However,there are some difficulties for deciding which program is effective because the individual studies have different subjects, independent variable and subordination variable. Therefore, this thesis executed a meta-analysis for group counseling program for adolescents’smartphone addiction cure. The subject of analysis research result includes 41 researches of group counseling program for adolescents’smartphone addiction cure which were published from 2010 to 2020 in Korea.
The main results and meaning of this paper are below.
First, the effect size of the whole variable is g=-0.53. So it is certain that the group counseling program is effective for decrease of smartphone addiction and related variable changes. This research results present practical standard for smartphone addiction cure and can be conjugated as basic materials in schools, local communities and counseling organizations for adolescents.
Second, the effect size of self-control is the biggest in positive psychology·social trait. Self-control is needed ability for adolescents as it can improve their health and quality of lives. In negative psychology·social trait, attention deficit has the biggest effect size. Thus, this paper has a significance for proving that group counseling program has generally positive effect to adolescents who have the self-control shortage and attention deficit in a perspective of smartphone addiction. Finally, as a result of the research for effect size according to moderator variable, this thesis confirmed that the frequently the program is performed and the longer the program is, the bigger the effect is, when the program is compose of self-control theory. This indicates that a certain period is needed for the subjects’behavior change. Hence, it is desirable for them to regulate the total times and have enough sessions which are made up of self-control theory when they effectuate a group counseling program for adolescents’smartphone addiction.
Like these, this dissertation has an importance that it deduced efficiency and characters from the programs and showed a new direction by analyzing generally group counseling program for adolescents’smartphone addiction.