Association between duration of gadget use and social development in school-age children

Abstract

Background: The prevalence of school-age children who have gadgets is around 71%, and as many as 55% of them spend time playing these gadgets by playing games. In this sophisticated age, children often focus more on gadgets so if you use gadgets excessively, it will have an impact on children's social development.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between gadget use and social development in school-age.

Method: A cross-sectional study was used for this study. The sample was school-age children (10-12 years) at Elementary School—100 people who were obtained through the total sampling technique. A questionnaire was performed for data collection. The data were analyzed by the Chi-Square statistical test.

Results: The results indicate that most of the participants had higher scores on using the gadgets with a long category (67%). However, almost half of the participants had social development with the adequate category (62%). The results of the statistical test obtained p value = 0.005 < ɑ 0.05.

Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between gadget use and social development among school-age at Elementary School.

 it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between gadget use and social development among school-age at Elementary School.