Structural Relationship of Factors Affecting SNS Addiction in Pre-Service Teachers

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Kyunghee Park, YeonsooOh

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This study explores ways to alleviate pre-service teachers’ SNS addiction and encourage positive change. Moreover, covert narcissism and insecure adult attachment are factors affecting that predict SNS addiction. Accordingly, the relationship between covert narcissism and SNS addiction in pre-service teachers and the meditating effect of insecure adult attachment were examined. For this study, responses by 446 pre-service teachers were measured against a battery of scales including the Covert Narcissism Scale, SNS Addiction Scale, and Insecure Adult Attachment Scale. Results showed that covert narcissism did not affect SNS addiction. Anxiety attachment and avoidant attachment, arising from insecure adult attachment, have a significant influence on SNS addiction. In conclusion, the study identified the mediating effect of insecure adult attachment on the relationship between covert narcissism and SNS addiction. Interventional implications of the current results are discussed

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