Experiences, Perceived of Preschool Children’s Parents of Their Children’s Social Media Addiction in Amphoe Donchedi, Suphanburi Province

Abstract

Social media is a rapidly evolving use. While social media is mostly talked about in a negative light when it comes to its impact on children. Popular opinion of the impact of social media on children is that it does more harm than good. This research was descriptive research design and to studied experiences, perceives of the parents of preschool children who addicting social media. The samples of size 100 people were preschool children’s parents in Donchedi district, Suphanburi area. The interviewees 12 people were parents and they has the children under their caring after while they’re addicting the social media in the high to highest level of their behaviors. Researcher collected the data as situation and social media addicted behavior in the sample. The researcher was interviewed the interviewees which is semi-structural interviews. Quantitative data were analyzed by percentage, mean, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis method. The major findings were as follows:

1. As a result of addicting social media in preschool children situation, the preschool children used an equipment’s for online media as 81% (n=100). It was found that the most of the children were addicted social media between the ages of 4 years - < 5 years, mean of aged 3.41 years. In addition to find the use social media in preschool children in this study, the results reveal middle level in general and all aspects of study ( = 2.54, S.D.= 1.169).

2. As a result of experienced from 12 parents, has found from the interviewees who expressed their positive perceived about the benefits of using social media were greater than the penalty. All of their experiences has taken part and affected to the preschool children has social media addicted behavior which yielded results organized around three themes: 1) Families' parenting 2) Social values affecting Families’ Behaviors and 3) The attractiveness of social media.