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- Title
THE LEVEL OF TOLERANCE SANCTIONING CHILDREN USING GADGETS BY PARENTS LEAD TO NOMOPHOBIA: EARLY AGE GADGETS EXPOSURE.
- Authors
Noorshahira Mohd Fadzil; Mohd Yusof Abdullah; Mohd Azul Mohamad Salleh
- Abstract
The evolution of technology communication nowadays has revolutionized the communication pattern in the family, yet slowly demolished the old-fashioned pattern of its own. Malaysian children in millennia generation are no longer familiar with traditional games such as marbles, hide and seek, and police and thief, as they are obsessed with their virtual world. This kind of trend is really worried. Examining the lifestyle of today is worrying. Children nowadays have been adopted by the culture of technology dependency regardless the process of monitoring by parents. The adoption of this kind of new culture resulting changes that occur in the communication process between children and parents due to the technological advances. The usage of gadgets among children has its own advantages also disadvantages. But to be precise, how important these gadgets towards the children should be reconsidered. Gadgets have been one of the tools by most parents as to keep their children under control. The objectives of this study are to identify the function of gadgets in the quality time with family and to understand whether the communication in the family shaped by the gadget usage or vice versa. The present study was applied convenience-sampling online survey conducted amongst 140 married students from MARA University of Technology (UiTM) in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. The respondents were conducted on full-time bachelor degree, masters and doctorate students of Mass Communication who were married and have kids aged of three to 12 years old. From the findings, 91 percent of the study subjects were allowing their children to use gadgets as early as three years old. 77 percent of them used gadgets in the home though during quality time with family (weekends, family day-out, family gathering). 74 percent of the respondents admit gadgets makes their children under control and fully functioned as the second nanny when they are busy. Only 15 percent bought their children very own gadget before the age of 12. This usage of mobile phone is increasing day by day in numbers as well as in per hour per person usage. This too much or unusual use or unsafe usage has become to an extent of addiction or phobia.
- Subjects
FAMILIES; VIRTUAL reality; COMPUTERS &; children; INTERNET &; children; CHILDHOOD attitudes; INTERNET surveys
- Publication
International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 2, p615
- ISSN
1557-718X
- Publication type
Article