Habit of television viewing and its impact on behavior among school age children

Abstract

Background

Television viewing is became easily available source for entertainment especially for school going children. This entertainment source produces a high impact on children behavior.

Aims and objectives

The study aimed at assessing television viewing habits of school age children in order to know its impact on the behavior of children, finding the correlation between habit of television viewing and behavior of school children and find out the association between television viewing habit scores and behavior scores with selected demographic variables.

Materials and methods

Television viewing habits of school age children was assessed by rating scale and used interview method for data collection. Behavior was identified by using the rating scale.

Results

The study results shows that 72.41% of school age children had average television viewing habits, 25.86% had poor and 1.72% good habit. Regarding behavior 91.37% children had average behavior, 3.4% of children had poor and 5.17% had average behavior. The correlation value shows that 0.64 as positive correlation between television viewing habits with behavior of school age children. There was a significant association between television viewing habits scores with age of the child (X²=7.52, df=2), occupation of father (X²=8.21, df=2), number of TV in the Home (X²=4.04, df=1) and behavior scores with type of family (X²=15.81, df=1).

Conclusion

The study concludes that improves the television viewing habits among school age children and reduces its negative influence over children behavior.