The Ability of Early Childhood Social Interaction Based on Gadget Giving by Parents in Sukorejo Village, Gunungpati District of Semarang City

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10.2991/secret-18.2018.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social Interaction Ability, Early Childhood, Gadget

Abstract

Parents generally provide gadgets to their children as a means of education and entertainment. Facts on the ground, there are two kinds of ways parents provide gadgets to children, the first is that parents allow the gadget to run every day, the second parent provides gadgets on certain days. Giving gadget to early childhood also negatively affects the child so that the child becomes undisciplined in the use of learning time, playing time, meal time and rest time. When children play gadgets, children usually forget time and ignore the surrounding environment. As a result, the child becomes anti-social. This parent is very contributory in limiting time and watching when the child is given a gadget. The purpose of this study was to explain the differences between early childhood social interactions based on the provision of gadgets by parents in Sukorejo Village, Gunungpati District of Semarang City. This research is a comparative quantitative research with research subjects are parents who have children aged 5-6 years who provide gadgets to children every day and on certain days in Sukorejo Village, Gunungpati District of Semarang City. The techniques of data collection in this study were using the scale of children's social interaction based on the provision of gadgets by parents, while the data analysis used a different test or independent sample t-test. The results of the study stated that there were no differences in social interaction between early childhoods based on the gadget facility by parents in the Sukorejo Village, Gunungpati District of Semarang City. It was proven by the statistical calculation, the value of the sig-2 tailed is 0.940, which means the value of the sig-2 tailed > 0.05, it means that the hypothesis test being rejected. The early childhood social interaction based on the everyday and certain day gadgets providing in Sukorejo Village, Gunungpati District of Semarang City had the same score in the high category, which was 46.6% on everyday given and 46.6% on a certain day. The suggestions for parents, they have to be more selective in giving toys to the children, and need assertiveness, mentoring from parents so that the gadget does not give a negative impact later that can interfere with the child's growth and development process, especially the development of social interaction.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Laely Hidayati
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BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Early Childhood Education. Semarang Early Childhood Research and Education Talks (SECRET 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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