The study aims to analyze the relationship between Korean adolescents’ parenting attitudes and adolescents’ mobile phone dependence and the mediating role of adolescent depression between the two. The study focuses on suggesting a good parenting attitude. This research used the panel data technique to study 2,056 junior students in the 2015 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) and was conducted by the Korea Youth Policy Institute. The main variables of the study were parenting attitudes, mobile phone dependency, and depression. Three factors, including supervision, emotion, and rationality interpretation, were analyzed to measure positive parenting attitudes, while three additional factors, including excessive expectations, over-intervention, and incoherence (inconsistency), were measured to measure negative parenting attitudes. It is evident from the results that adolescent depression plays an important mediating role in the relationship between parents' negative parenting attitudes and adolescents' dependence on mobile phones. This study emphasized that depression is a variable that influences adolescents’ dependence on mobile phones. The higher the parent’s negative parenting attitude, the higher the adolescent’s dependence on the mobile phone, and thus greater the possibility of excessive use of the mobile phone. Negative parenting attitudes may also affect adolescents' mobile phone dependency through affecting depression. Additionally, studies also show that positive parenting attitudes have no effect on mobile phone dependency.

该研究旨在分析韩国青少年的养育态度与青少年手机依赖之间的关系以及青少年抑郁症在两者之间的中介作用。该研究的重点是建议良好的养育态度。这项研究由韩国青年政策研究所进行，使用面板数据技术对 2015 年韩国儿童和青少年面板调查 (KCYPS) 中的 2,056 名初中学生进行了研究。该研究的主要变量是养育态度、手机依赖和抑郁症。分析了监督、情感和理性解释三个因素来衡量积极的养育态度，同时还测量了过度期望、过度干预和不连贯（不一致）三个因素来衡量消极的养育态度。结果表明，青少年抑郁在父母消极教养态度与青少年手机依赖关系中起重要中介作用。这项研究强调，抑郁症是影响青少年对手机依赖的一个变量。父母的消极教养态度越高，青少年对手机的依赖程度越高，过度使用手机的可能性就越大。消极的养育态度也可能通过影响抑郁来影响青少年的手机依赖。此外，研究还表明，积极的养育态度对手机依赖没有影响。