LEVEL OF GADGET ADDICTION WITH EMOTIONAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN

Abstract

Emotional disturbance is a form of self-adaptation difficulty and inappropriate behaviors that were improper to the applied norms in certain age group or society, in which disadvantageous to self or other people. When children were addicted to gadgets, this will make children anxious when they got separated away to the said gadget. While most of their time were spent in using the gadget. General goal of this research was to identify the relationship between gadget addiction level and emotional disorder in elementary school children aged 11-12 years at UPT SDN No. 064023, Medan Tuntungan. Method used in this research were quantitative method with cross-sectional approach with the amount of samples of 30 people. Results acquired from this research, through statistical analysis of Chi-square test, was p-value < 0.05 which was 0.z049 (difficulty scale) and p-value of 0.025 (strength scale).Conclusively, there was a relationship between gadget addiction level and emotional disorders in elementary school children aged 11-12 years at UPT SDN No. 064023, Medan Tuntungan District, though in low correlation. Hopefully, to give a suggestion for further researches, to be able to analyze the intensity and which factors that could affect children to avoid gadget addiction.