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The Impact of The Use of Gadgets in School of School Age Towards Children's
Social Behavior in Semata Village
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STKIP Singkawang, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia
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Sociology and Anthropology Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
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History Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
Correspondence address: p-ISSN 2252-6390
Naram, Singkawang Utara, Kota Singkawang,
e-ISSN 2502-4442
Kalimantan Barat, 79151
E-mail: frahasini_isin@yahoo.co.id
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his social attitude. The attitude according to in Semata Village, Tangaran District, Sambas
Akyas (2004) is "a way of reacting to a particular Regency, West Kalimantan Province".
stimulus". Indicators of social behavior can be
seen through the characteristics and patterns of METHODS
interpersonal response, namely the tendency of
role behavior, behavioral tendencies in social This research was conducted with a
relationships, and the tendency of expressive qualitative approach. It means researchers as
behavior. instruments in research. This research design is a
Behavioral tendencies in social relations qualitative approach to the type of
attract the attention of researchers associated phenomenology. In qualitative research,
with the use of gadgets. Behavioral tendencies in researchers must know deeply and thoroughly
social relations include the nature of being about the problems under study. The focus of this
accepted and rejected by others in their daily research is the use of gadgets by school-age
environment, being social and not being social, children, the role of parents in supervising gadget
friendly and unfriendly, sympathetic and usage, and the impact of using gadgets on
unsympathetic. The use of gadgets can affect the children's social behavior.
activities carried out by children in daily life, The Sources of research data are
especially those related to the environment informants, phenomena, and documents. The
around their lives. Directly or not the use of informants in this study consisted of six school-
gadgets by children will affect children's behavior age children including two elementary school
with the social environment of their lives. From children/equivalent, two junior high school
the above explanations, it shows that there is a students/equivalent, and two high
relationship between the use of gadgets and social school/equivalent children and parents of gadget
behavior. users. The retrieval of informants in this study
The child's daily life is very close to his was carried out based on the level of children's
social environment, so that whether consciously education and gender per level of education. So
or not everything that happens in the child's daily every level of education has two informants
environment will have an impact on the child's consist of one son and one daughter.
life as well. All changes or developments in the The phenomenon is the impact of the use
world that occur have the potential to affect the of gadgets among school-age children on
life of the child itself. Especially regarding the children's social behavior. Documentation is in
development of world technology. School-age the form of pictures during interviews with child
children are vulnerable with outside influences in informants and parents. The location of this
themselves which can influence through the research is in Semata Village, Tangaran District,
media and the community around their lives such Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan Province.
as parents, peers, and residential communities. Collecting data in this study with in-depth
This phenomenon can have an impact on interview techniques, observation, and
children's habits in everyday life that can be seen documentation. The validity of the data in this
from the social behavior of school-age children. study uses triangulation techniques, namely
Conditions like this, become an interesting source triangulation and theory triangulation.
phenomenon related to the use of gadgets among Data analysis techniques through qualitative
school-age children and the social behavior of analysis of interactive models consisting of four
children and at the same time deserve to be steps, namely data collection, data reduction,
studied. Therefore, based on the above data presentation, and verification/drawing
background, there arises a connection to conduct conclusions.
research on "The impact of gadget use among
school-age children on children's social behavior
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Parental supervision of children in high gadget users, has been strengthened by the results
school education is more dependent on the child of previous research conducted by Palar (2018)
itself. However, it does not mean to give free the and Hariyanto (2016) shows there is a
children from using gadgets. The way of parents’ relationship between the role of the family in
supervision in high school level by paying avoiding the impact negative use of gadgets in
attention to children when it is late night until children with children's behavior in the use of
dawn then parents will warn the children. gadgets. Moreover, Syamsiah's research (2017)
Children are given advice by parents to do shows the role of parental guidance on adolescent
not forget the time when using a gadget. Then, gadget users is very important to minimize the
parents remind children to always remember impact of gadget use by children.
learning time and sleep time. In addition,
direction is made by parents through examples of The Impact of The Use of Gadgets in School of
events or news that are on television if they School Age Towards Children's Social
happen to be watching immediately given advice. Behavior
The direction from parents to children is not too Denied/Accepted by the Community
busy using gadgets. Already junior high school The relationship between children gadget
must be able to distinguish which is good which users and the surrounding community can be
is not. Direction is made by parents against the seen from the frequency of children gathering
children of gadget users among in secondary with their environment, especially with peers.
schools are in the form of advice to children. The response of the community to children is
The data found in the field regarding the seen from the child's relationship that is still
issue of parental supervision of the use of accepted in everyday life. Children also often visit
children's gadgets is that parents do not curb the their neighbors' homes. Communities around the
use of gadgets by children while still in a place of residence still have social relations or
detrimental scope. The meaning of senderung interactions with children who use gadgets.
contains conflict and pressure in a role that occurs Especially among high school children often
in an environment means the emergence of interact with older adults around the place of
conflict in the parents themselves. This can be residence.
seen from the beginning of the use of gadgets by
children. Permission to use the gadget by the Friendly/Unfriendly Attitude
child can actually be said to have had an element The impact of the use of gadgets among
of conflict. Parents want to keep abreast of the elementary school age children towards
times that are happening now so that children are friendly/unfriendly attitudes is more to a friendly
allowed to use gadgets. attitude. It can be seen in the daily lives of
The research results found above, related children in using their gadgets to interact with
to the relationship between the role of parents and their peers such as sending each other cartoon
the use of gadgets by school-age children are videos or games they have. Consciously or not a
reinforced by Astuti's opinion (2014) which friendly attitude arises in the child. At the
shows that the application of social values is a elementary school level the impact of using
shared responsibility between teachers, gadgets on friendly/unfriendly attitudes is that
communities, schools, and government. It means children are more likely to be friends, children
the role of parents regarding children's social interact more often with other people, especially
behavior is very necessary. This is because their peers.
parents are one of the educator environments in The impact of the use of gadgets on the
shaping children's social behavior. elementary school level towards other friendly/
Findings about the role of parents in unfriendly attitudes that the children feel with the
supervising the use of gadgets by children who gadget making the unknown know the social
follow the supervision and direction of parents to media that can be accessed through gadgets.
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the perspective of ethics and norms that exist in especially with peers, as well as children's
life. sympathy can arise through gadgets by mutual
In addition to Hilmi (2015), Prasetya tell the events that are being experienced or in
(2016), Rachmana (2013), Mariskhana (2018), other words confide in each other.
Rosdiana (2018), Puruhita (2016) researchers
show that gadgets used by children, including ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
among school-age children, cause a shift in local
values in behavior. social child which gives rise to Acknowledgments the researchers
new values. The shift in value that occurs causes conveyed to Prof. Dr. Tri Marhaeni Pudji Astuti,
positive damage that allows children to access M.Hum. (Supervisor I) and Dr. Hamdan Tri
new information and facilitate communication. Atmaja, M.Pd. (Supervisor II) who has guided,
But on the other hand it can lead to negative guided, and directed researchers in the
social behavior through gadgets that are used preparation of this scientific work.
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