ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ELECTRONIC ENTERTAINMENT AND PRAGMATIC SKILL OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
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Children today are of digital age as they have an overwhelming choice regarding methods of play. Today, technology for a child is a source of learning and entertainment which can also have negative effect on health and well-being. Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. This study aims to determine the association between electronic entertainment and pragmatics of school age children having varied hours and content of electronic entertainment. It was a cross-sectional survey conducted in Rawalpindi and Islamabad with a sample size of 400 collected through purposive sampling. Typically developing school age children of both genders in the age group of 6-12 years, enrolled in private school of grade A and grade B category were included in this study. Children with special needs, learning disabilities and any psychological disorder were excluded. Data was collected using pragmatic checklist and the demographic data sheet with questions related to electronic entertainment. Written permission was sought from school administration for data collection. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS version 20. The results of this study showed a significant positive association (p≤0.05) of overall duration of electronic entertainment with the pragmatics (0.000) of school age children. There was a significant positive relationship (p≤0.05) of age of the school going children with TV watching (0.03) and mobile usage duration (0.03). However, there was no significant positive relationship (p≥0.05) of age of school going children with overall duration of electronic entertainment (0.73) and pragmatics (0.76). It was concluded that school age children with an overall duration of more than 5 hours of various electronic entertainment usage sometimes show appropriate pragmatics instead of always.
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