Maternal Mediation on Children’s Smartphone Overdependence: A Moderated Moderation Model of Mother-Child Communication and Children’s Gender

Objectives: This study examined the effects of maternal mediation and mother-child communication on children’s smartphone overdependence. It also explored moderated moderation effect gender relationship between overdependence.Methods: A total 411 first to third grade elementary school students their mothers participated in this study. Mothers responded questionnaires. Data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis with SPSS 21.0 model 3 PROCESS macro version 3.4.Results: First, active only affected girls’ overdependence, while restrictive both boys’ That is, more showed, less dependent girls smartphones. Moreover, boys Second, problematic influenced overdependence; that they had mothers, depended Lastly, overdependence was different depending open gender. Specifically, its greater when communicated openly found case girls.Conclusion: confirmed are important effectively prevent or intervene suggests prevention intervention should be approached differently