Children's Electronic Games and Its Relation to Family Control Techniques: An Empirical Study on Jeddah's Elementary School Students, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The current study discusses the previous social, educational and psychological studies on children's electronic games that were based on the dissemination of latest products and cultural trends as a theoretical platform for interpretation. However, this study aims to explore the differences in the use patterns and motivations of elementary schools' students, as well as the differences in the impacts related and the family control techniques based on certain variables, e.g., sex, age, sequence of birth among brothers/sisters, domicile and number of family members. Moreover, it aims to explore if there is a relationship among such impacts and the family control techniques. The current study adapted the descriptive approach, thus used a questionnaire that was designed to gather such information of the 176 participants-sample of both genders.  Thus, the results indicated that there are differences in use patterns, impacts and family control techniques based on such variables employed; in addition, it was found that, there is a positive relationship among the various family control techniques, social impacts, and a passive relationship between the family control techniques and schooling impacts on such children.