Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh

Globally, addiction to digital game among the children and adolescents is a growing concern due to its increasing rate of users and adverse effects on their personal including health and social life. Reviewing the literatures shows a number of factors for child’s digital game addiction. Of the liter...

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Autores principales: Farah Deba Keya, Md Mostafizur Rahman, M. Tareq Nur, Md Kamal Pasa
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f7f7f6ef35604bcea5e4491bdb3efc1e2021-12-01T05:03:28ZParenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh2451-958810.1016/j.chbr.2020.100031https://doaj.org/article/f7f7f6ef35604bcea5e4491bdb3efc1e2020-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958820300312https://doaj.org/toc/2451-9588Globally, addiction to digital game among the children and adolescents is a growing concern due to its increasing rate of users and adverse effects on their personal including health and social life. Reviewing the literatures shows a number of factors for child’s digital game addiction. Of the literatures, only a few plausibly shows some form of parenting be a cause for digital game addiction, but under what conditions of parenting influence child to be addicted to digital game is not adequately addressed. Aiming to address the gap, a qualitative study was conducted in North-western Bangladesh using Ethnographic Interview with children and Indepth Interview with parents. The data was analyzed manually following thematic framework. The result of the study shows troubled child-parent relationship and parental attitudes for making their child competitive in education, parental neglect, loneliness and anxiety of the child, and permissive parenting are attributed to digital game addiction. Its social basis is emanated from the family’s asymmetrical role in a market based society. Making a child competitive and capable for future market system is over prioritized, whereas providing emotional security is undermined. It also argued that in a capitalistic society, parents has turned tobe a less authoritative figure to deal children’s issue due to the father’s inability to address economic needs of the family adequately and mothers’ economic dependence to their male counter-part. In such a context, parents are compelled to minimize the gap by offering or allowing child to digital game and so gradually children become addicted to digital game. This argument supported the idea of Frankfurt school on how people attracted and depended on culture industry.Farah Deba KeyaMd Mostafizur RahmanM. Tareq NurMd Kamal PasaElsevierarticleTroubled child-parent relationshipParental neglectPermissive parentingEconomic pressureEmotional securityDigital game addictionElectronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95PsychologyBF1-990ENComputers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol 2, Iss , Pp 100031- (2020)
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topic Troubled child-parent relationship
Parental neglect
Permissive parenting
Economic pressure
Emotional security
Digital game addiction
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
Psychology
BF1-990
spellingShingle Troubled child-parent relationship
Parental neglect
Permissive parenting
Economic pressure
Emotional security
Digital game addiction
Electronic computers. Computer science
QA75.5-76.95
Psychology
BF1-990
Farah Deba Keya
Md Mostafizur Rahman
M. Tareq Nur
Md Kamal Pasa
Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh
description Globally, addiction to digital game among the children and adolescents is a growing concern due to its increasing rate of users and adverse effects on their personal including health and social life. Reviewing the literatures shows a number of factors for child’s digital game addiction. Of the literatures, only a few plausibly shows some form of parenting be a cause for digital game addiction, but under what conditions of parenting influence child to be addicted to digital game is not adequately addressed. Aiming to address the gap, a qualitative study was conducted in North-western Bangladesh using Ethnographic Interview with children and Indepth Interview with parents. The data was analyzed manually following thematic framework. The result of the study shows troubled child-parent relationship and parental attitudes for making their child competitive in education, parental neglect, loneliness and anxiety of the child, and permissive parenting are attributed to digital game addiction. Its social basis is emanated from the family’s asymmetrical role in a market based society. Making a child competitive and capable for future market system is over prioritized, whereas providing emotional security is undermined. It also argued that in a capitalistic society, parents has turned tobe a less authoritative figure to deal children’s issue due to the father’s inability to address economic needs of the family adequately and mothers’ economic dependence to their male counter-part. In such a context, parents are compelled to minimize the gap by offering or allowing child to digital game and so gradually children become addicted to digital game. This argument supported the idea of Frankfurt school on how people attracted and depended on culture industry.
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author Farah Deba Keya
Md Mostafizur Rahman
M. Tareq Nur
Md Kamal Pasa
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Md Mostafizur Rahman
M. Tareq Nur
Md Kamal Pasa
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title Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh
title_short Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh
title_full Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh
title_fullStr Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: A qualitative study in North-Western part of Bangladesh
title_sort parenting and child’s (five years to eighteen years) digital game addiction: a qualitative study in north-western part of bangladesh
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2020
url https://doaj.org/article/f7f7f6ef35604bcea5e4491bdb3efc1e
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