Electronic Addiction among Kindergarten Children: A Psychological Study

Abstract

This research aims to investigate electronic addiction among kindergarten children, and the significance of the differences in addiction levels based on gender, kindergarten type, and mother's profession. The researcher developed an electronic addiction scale based on Young's theory and administered it to a random sample of mothers of children attending government and private kindergartens in Baghdad's six districts. The study employed statistical analysis tools to analyze the data, including analysis of variance, t-tests, standard deviation, arithmetic mean and Cronbach's alpha equation. The findings reveal that the sample had low levels of electronic addiction. However, there were significant differences in addiction levels based on gender, with females having higher addiction levels, kindergarten type, with private kindergarten showing higher addiction levels, and mother's profession, with working mothers exhibiting more addiction than housewives.