Parents’ perception toward the effect of the gadget usage among children / Nur Sahniza Sahmat and Nurul Syamimi Jainol

This study is regarding the parents' perception toward the effect of gadget usage among children. We would like to determine what the effect of gadget for children’s lifestyle, academic performance and also toward children’s health when they are using the gadget as well as to study on the parents' perception toward the effect of gadget used among children.The results of this research are gadget usage among children lead to affect the children social lifestyle, academic performance and also children’s health However, there are no relationship for the parents' perception with the effects of gadget used among children based on the result gained through correlation analysis. They are either encouraged and avoid to takes a burden to buy a gadget for their children. Besides that, not all ofthe parents supported the existence ofthe gadget in their home. There were 248 academic and non-academic staff at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Campus Samarahan 1 and 2 has become respondents for this study. The data obtained were analysed using computer software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to calculate the mean, frequency and correlation coefficient test.