31Jan 2017

MATERNAL PARENTING STYLE AND CHILDREN?S ELECTRONIC USE AMONG UNIVERSITY FEMALE EMPLOYEES, SAUDI ARABIA.

  • PhD in public health and preventive medicine, Assistant Professor in health sciences department, Health and rehabilitation sciences college, Princess Noura Bint Abdelrhaman University.
  • Graduate students, epidemiology program, health sciences department, Health and rehabilitation sciences college, Princess Noura Bint Abdelrhaman University.
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Background: Technology is becoming an essential part of life, especially for children born and growing up with it. Therefore, it is important to know how it is affecting them socially, physically and behaviorally. Different parents have different attitudes and behaviors that determine how they deal with their children, the variety of parenting styles can have different outcomes on the children?s use of electronics. Objectives: Firstly, to identify different parenting style among mother employees at Princess Nora University, then determine the effect of different parenting styles on the hours spent by children on electronic devices and lastly, assess the level of perceived potential negative hazards of electronics. Methods: A cross-sectional study has been conducted, with a standard, multi-sectional modified questionnaire. Sample size was 280 females obtained by multistage stratified sampling. Results: The most common parenting style was the Authoritative. Screen time use was positively correlated with permissive parenting style (.09), and was negatively correlated with the authoritarian and authoritative parenting style (-.01). The majority of mothers perceived that the use of electronics has a mild impact on their children?s physical health. Overall, there is a significant relationship between permissive parenting style and setting restrictions on electronics use ( p = 0.04 ), and significant effect on children?s time spent on electronics per week (p = .057 ). Conclusion: Findings showed no significance between parenting style and children?s screen time use. However, children?s health was affected, therefore, parents must apply restrictions on screen-time use.

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[Eman M. mortada, Ayah A. Aloubal, Amira A. Almohishir and Malak F. Almehaijeen. (2017); MATERNAL PARENTING STYLE AND CHILDREN?S ELECTRONIC USE AMONG UNIVERSITY FEMALE EMPLOYEES, SAUDI ARABIA. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 2454-2467] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Eman M. Mortada
Health and rehabilitation sciences college, Princess Noura Bint Abdelrhaman University

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3032      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3032

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