Evaluation of social well-being and emotional self-awareness based on the quality of relationship with parents due to smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students

Instant and easy access to smartphones and the internet has become the cause of addiction. Mobile phone addiction has a negative effect on the quality of the relationship between parents and children. The aim of this study was to compare and test the causal relationship model of social well-being, emotional self-awareness with parents due to smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students.

The statistical population included all high-intelligence students of Alborz province, who volunteered to enter the university in the academic year 2020-2021. 372 people were selected by convenience sampling method through online call and answered online to Social Welfare Questionnaire, Smartphone Addiction Questionnaire (SPAQ), Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ), and Child-Parent Relationship Scale (CPRS).

There was a direct relationship between social welfare and smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students.. Furthermore, the findings showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between social welfare and smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students (p <0.01 and β = -0.29). There was a direct relationship between emotional self-awareness and smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students. There is a negative and significant relationship between emotional self-awareness and smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students. (p <0.01 and β = -0.15). According to the findings, the direct relationship between the quality of the relationship with parents and smartphone addiction in high-intelligence students was negative and significant (p <0.01 and β = -0.13).

Smartphone addiction can be reduced by improving the quality of social welfare and emotional self-awareness and increasing the quality of the relationship between high-intelligence students and their parents.