The Health and Behavioral Effects of Children's Preoccupation with Electronic Games from the point of view of Primary School Teachers in Ajloun Governorate

Abstract

The study aimed in a way to identify the health, psychological and behavioral effects of children's involvement in electronic games by their parents, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive analytical approach was used in its survey style, where the methods of social survey were applied to the sample to obtain field data from the study sample using the questionnaire tool. The study sample in its final form consisted of (393) male and female teachers. The results of the study found that the general level of the health, psychological and behavioral effects of children’s occupation resulting from children’s involvement in electronic games came at a high level, and the results showed that one of the most important health effects of children’s involvement in electronic games, which came was represented in the impact of electronic games on public health for children (obesity, visual impairment, muscle pain, headache).” The results also showed that the general level of the behavioral effects of excessive children in electronic games came at a high level, and the results showed that one of the most important behavioral effects of excessive children in electronic games, which came at a high level. High It was represented in its contribution to increasing children's desire to practice physical violence against others, and the negative impact on children's behavior in terms of their lack of respect for older others when speaking and dealing with them, and in children practicing inappropriate violent behavior in their daily lives.The study recommended based on its results. Increasing supervision and follow-up by parents in the Jordanian family on the behavior of children in the family and on electronic games They practice them to reduce the social and behavioral effects of their use.