Suggestions of Directions on Wholeperson-centered General Education for College Students for Overcoming Smartphone Addiction: Behavioristic Perspective and Behavioral Neurosciencebased Healbeing-healtechnical Perspective |
Maeng-Sik Shin |
스마트폰 중독에 대한 행동주의적 분석과 행동신경과학적인 힐빙-힐텍적 분석을 통한 전인적 교양교육의 필요성 제고 |
신맹식 |
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Abstract |
Rapid propagation of smartphone to the public has so far provided us with convenience in collecting information and facilitating global social relationships. However, as its side-effect, a considerable number of users of this gadget suffer from compulsive use or addiction (i.e., smartphone addiction, SPA). This maladaptive behavior has already devastated quite large number of college students life given that this will block their important goal of establishing wholeperson-oriented personality. The present review and discussion were designed to help these students to understand underlying mechanisms of this behavioral addiction and to suggest some reasonable remedies for this disorder. First, based on principles of reinforcement schedule (RS), possible behavioral mechanisms of SPA were figured out. A new shifted pattern in using this gadget was suggested to be from variable schedules to fixed ones to reduce frequencies of their access to it. Next, a holistic methodology combining behavioral neuroscientific with integral approaches, called healbeing-healtechnical approach, was applied for elucidating the mechanisms and suggesting related remedies. For this perspective, given that some brain circuits are easily subjected to impairs to especially prefrontal cortex (PFC) that is responsible for not only execution of normal cognitive actions but also inhibition of maladaptive behavior or emotions including depression, anxiety, hostility, learning disabilities, etc., this methodology is characterized to use nature-friendly or enriched environments (e.g., forest bathing, life therapies, etc.) in a holistic way to stimulate or strengthen neurons in the PFC. Several possible benefits from these methodologies could be gained for recovering right directions to the wholeperson-centered college education. Some limitations of the current approaches were also discussed. |
Key Words:
smartphone addiction, behavioral addiction, behaviorism, behavioral neuroscience, healbeing-healtechnical, prefrontal cortex |
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