보건계열 대학생의 디지털 역량과 정신건강상태가 SNS중독 경향성에 미치는 영향

This study is a descriptive research study to determine the impact of digital competency and mental health status of public health college students on SNS addiction tendency. Data collection was conducted using a structured questionnaire targeting 180 public health students from three universities located in G Metropolitan City. The collected data were subjected to t-test, ANOVA, pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis using SPSS 26.0 program. In this study, the mean score for digital competence was 3.55± .67, the average score for mental health status was 1.97± .79, and the average score for social media addiction tendency was 2.00± .64. As a result of the significant trend of social media addiction among health college students, the general characteristics were gender, grade, age, academic performance, residential type, average daily use of SNS, and motivation for using SNS. SNS addiction tendency showed a negative correlation with digital competency, and mental health status showed a statistically significant positive correlation. The variables affecting SNS addiction tendency were mental health status, academic performance and average daily SNS use time, and the explanatory power was 41%. Accordingly, the purpose of this is to prevent mental health problems caused by the tendency of health college students to addiction to SNS and to lay the necessary foundation for the development of educational programs that emphasize the importance of mental health conditions.