Open AccessPARENTAL CONTROL AND FOLLOW-UP ON ELECTRONIC GAMES AND THE EFFECT OF THOSE GAMES ON THE EMOTIONAL AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PARENTS IN JERUSALEM
Author(s) -
Firas Tawfiq Mohammad Asmar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rimak international journal of humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2717-8293
DOI - 10.47832/2717-8293.1-3.8
Subject(s) - psychology , point (geometry) , developmental psychology , control (management) , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , management , economics
The study aimed to reveal the effect of supervision and follow-up by parents on electronic games that the child plays, and the effect of those games on the emotional side and aggressive behavior from the viewpoint of parents in occupied Jerusalem, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was prepared by the researcher consisting of three axes: Parents' monitoring and follow-up aspect, the emotional side, and the hostile behavior aspect. The questionnaire was distributed to a survey sample consisting of (300) parents of kindergarten children’s parents in Jerusalem, during the middle of the first semester of the 2019/2020 academic year. The study showed the following results: There are no statistically significant differences for the effect of parental control and follow-up on electronic games that kindergarten children play, and the results also showed that there are no statistically significant differences of the effect of electronic games on the emotional side of kindergarten children from the parents' point of view, as well as the results showed There are statistically significant differences in the effect of electronic games on the aggressive behavior of kindergarten children from the parents' point of view in a negative and large degree.