Parents’ Perceptions on Addiction to Electronic Games and its Relationship to Social Isolation among Primary School Children

Playing is a mental, imaginative, entertaining, social, and educational activity that contributes to developing child’s personality. It develops children in mental, physical, social and linguistic areas. Due to technological developments, electronic games are highly used today. In fact, some children are addicted to such games and become socially isolated. Thus, it’s necessary to conduct studies about the relationship between addiction to such games and social isolation. This study explored the level of addiction to electronic games among primary school children from parents’ perspective. It also explored the relationship between such addiction and social isolation among primary school children from the point of view of parents. The researchers adopted the descriptive correlational approach. They sampled 120 parents who play electronic games with their children. They obtained data from them through using two questionnaires. The first one measures the level of addiction to electronic games. The second one measures the level of social isolation. 1)-The level of addiction to electronic games among primary school children from parents’ perspective is moderate in the social and behavioral areas. 2)-The level of social isolation among children of the primary school children is moderate. 3)- There’s a significant relationship between such addiction and social isolation among primary school children. The level of addiction to electronic games among primary school children is moderate from parents’ point of views. This is the first study that examined the level of addiction to electronic games among primary school children from parents’ perspective in Jordan. The researchers recommend promoting awareness among children in schools about the consequences of addiction to electronic games.