Yeonsoo Oh, National Youth Healing Center, yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Kyunghee Park, Department of Education, Woosuk University, Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea
This study is looking to find a way for the pre-service teacher to relieve SNS addiction and to positively change them. Also, covert narcissism and insecure adult attachment is a factor to predict SNS addiction. Accordingly, pre-service teacher’s covert narcissism and the relation between SNS addiction is found as well as examining the meditating effect of insecure adult attachment in relation. For the purpose of this study, 446 pre-service teachers completed 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. Secondly, anxiety attachment and avoidant attachment, from insecure adult attachment, has significant influence on SNS addiction. Lastly, the study found insecure adult attachments’ mediating effect on the connection between covert narcissism and SNS addiction. Interventional implications of the current results are discussed.
Covert Narcissism, SNS addiction, Insecure Adult Attachment, Pre-service Teacher, Mediating Effect
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APA:
Oh, Y., & Park, K., (2020). Relationship between Covert Narcissism and SNS Addiction in Pre-Service Teacher: Mediating Effect of Insecure Adult Attachment. Journal of Humanities Research and Methodology (JHRM), ISSN: 2652-6034, NADIA, 1(1), 13-20. doi: 10.33832/jhrm.2020.1.1.03.
MLA:
Oh, Yeonsoo, et al. “Relationship between Covert Narcissism and SNS Addiction in Pre-Service Teacher: Mediating Effect of Insecure Adult Attachment.” Journal of Humanities Research and Methodology, ISSN: 2652-6034, NADIA, vol. 1, no. 1, 2020, pp. 13-20. JHRM, http://article.nadiapub.com/JHRM/vol1_no1/3.html.
IEEE:
[1] Y. Oh, and K. Park, " Relationship between Covert Narcissism and SNS Addiction in Pre-Service Teacher: Mediating Effect of Insecure Adult Attachment." Journal of Humanities Research and Methodology (JHRM), ISSN: 2652-6034, NADIA, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 13-20, Apr 2020.
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