Abstract:

The study verified longitudinal impact the use of mobile phones with family members and school rule compliance on successful learning activities. This study used the data of Korean Children Youth Panel Survey by National Youth Policy Institute. The data from 1th to 6th was used. The results were as follows. First, it was found that students who use mobile phones more frequently to communicate with their families in the first grade of middle school tended to follow school rules better and perform learning activities more successfully at the same time. This showed that the degree of compliance with school rules mediated the relationship between degree of mobile use for communication with family and successful learning activities. Second, as the use of mobile phones with family members increased, compliance with school rules increased; and successful learning activities increased more significantly. And as the compliance with school rules increased, successful learning activities increased more significantly as well. Based on the results of this study, the following suggestions were made. Parents should encourage their middle school children to use their mobile phones for communication with their families, and teachers should instruct first grade middle school students to comply with school rules. In addition, both parents and teachers should encourage students to use mobile phones to communicate with their families from the second grade of middle school to the third grade of high school to help them better in complying with school rules and perform more successful learning activities every year.

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