Digital Games and Their Negative Impacts on The Daily Life of Children from The Viewpoints of Mothers - A Field Study in Mosul City
Keywords:
Mother's Opinion, Mosul City, Video Games, Daily Life, Children, Negative Repercussions, FamilyAbstract
The study aimed to identify the negative repercussions of electronic games on the daily lives of children from the point of view of their mothers in Iraqi society in general and the city of Mosul in particular. This study falls within the analytical descriptive studies due to the use of the social survey approach through interviews with a group of mothers of children, and collecting the necessary information for the purposes of the study, in addition to the questions posed in the form of questionnaires distributed to a random sample of mothers of approximately (50) individuals. The study reached a number of results, including:
1. Electronic games have contributed to weakening children’s relationships with their families, due to their preoccupation with electronic games, in addition to the emergence of hostile behaviors towards family members and failure to obey the orders of mothers and fathers, in addition to the isolation, introversion, and complex psychology that the child began to live away from his friends because of these games.
2. Electronic games have contributed to the decline in the child’s academic level through the child being preoccupied with playing various electronic games and neglecting the school duties required of him, in addition to dropping out of school, quarreling with school teachers, and causing problems at school with students due to the effect of some hostile games on the child.
3. The child gradually moved away from watching useful programs on television and even animated films, because he began to be interested only in playing electronic games and being influenced by them.
4. Electronic games contributed to the child’s religious scruples, as he began to play for long hours on video games without taking time to read the Holy Quran and pray.
5. Electronic games have had a negative impact on the child’s health, as they have caused him to suffer from poor eyesight, lack of concentration, and distorted memory. Likewise, such games have made him mentally and physically exhausted by affecting the joints of the neck, body, and back, lack of sleep, staying up for long hours, loss of appetite, and lack of exercise. the mission.
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