Statistical Analysis Relationship Between Behavior of Millenial Parents With Game Addictions in Children

Abstract

Game addiction has been declared as one of the mental disorders by WHO. According to research conducted by first author in previous studies stated that there is a negative correlation between the learning process of children with game addiction. This causes anxiety for parents. Today, technology that is developing rapidly is one of the challenges for parents, especially millennial parents. On the other hand, millennial parents also often use gadgets or play games on these gadgets. The parenting style applied by millennial parents to children can also affect children’s growth and development. Indirectly the child will follow what the parents do. The current research, analyzes the relationship between millennial parents’ care for game addiction in children. This study consisted of two variables, namely the millennial parent’s behavior and game addiction, each of which has aspects that are translated into a questionnaire. This study uses a qualitative approach. The method of correlation test analysis using Pearson Product Moment with the help of SPSS. The study concluded that, there was a relationship between behavior of millennial parents and game addiction in children. The relationship that occurs is a significant positive correlation where, the higher the behavior style of millennial parents, the higher the game addiction in children. With the correlation coefficient between the parental millennial behavior and game addiction in children amounting to 0.366 with sig. = 0.023 (p <0.05).