The Impact of Smartphone Ussage Towards Family Harmony (A Study on Career Women in Makassar City)
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220102.065How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Smartphone; Career Women; Harmony; Family
- Abstract
Smartphones provide positive effect and negative effect if it is not used wisely, including maintaining household harmony for career women. This study aims to determine the impact of smartphone use among career women in their relationships with family, household and how they organize their households from the threat of disharmony during smartphone use. This research was conducted in Makassar, Indonesia by using qualitative research with a case study approach. Data was obtained purposively from observation and in-depth interviews from four career women professions (Lecturers, Politicians, Notaries, and Entrepreneurs then analyzed by using the Miles and Huberman model. This study found that there are positive and negative impacts of smartphone use in career women’s households, where smartphones can be a solution in communicating when they are far apart, but on the other hand, excessive smartphone use affects each other’s intimacy, while the efforts and methods that what career women do to manage the household during a rush of information is to maintain their communication with their husbands and children and to instill an attitude of mutual honesty and trust.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Winardi Kamal AU - Tuti Bahfiarti PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/06 TI - The Impact of Smartphone Ussage Towards Family Harmony (A Study on Career Women in Makassar City) BT - Proceedings of the Universitas Lampung International Conference on Social Sciences (ULICoSS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 497 EP - 502 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220102.065 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220102.065 ID - Kamal2022 ER -