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초록

The purpose of this study was to identify the mediating effect of interpersonal relationship in relations between college students' stress and smartphone addiction. In order to perform this, the survey was done on 300 college students from two colleges in Gyeonggi-do, with convenience sampling method, and the data from 266 questionnaires was used for analysis. With the use of SPSS/PC 20.0, the collected data from the survey was analyzed through descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe, Pearson's correlation analysis, Baron, Kenny's mediating analysis, and Sobel test, which was used to verify the significance of mediating effect. The study result suggests that the rate of smartphone addiction of female students was higher than male students, and meaningful correlation was shown between college students’ stress, interpersonal relationship and smartphone addiction. It also showed that college students’ high stress had negative effect on interpersonal relationship, and as their interpersonal relationship was poorer, the rate of smartphone addiction resulted with higher rate. Therefore, it presented that interpersonal relationship had a partial mediation effect between college students’ stress and smartphone addiction. Based on the result of this research, it suggests the necessity of active coping for stress and interpersonal relationship regarding on smartphone addiction problem.

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