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Causes and Impact of Gadgets Addiction in Children

Author(s) Dr. Arti Anand
Country India
Abstract This study focuses on the hand held gadget addiction among children and its consequences on
their performance academic, psychological, and physical health. Exploration of data paints a
worrying trend of a decline in mean academic scores as the number of hours children spend
on gadgets rises; mean academic scores are 85% for children using gadgets 1–2 hours per day
and 58% for children using gadgets more than 5 hours per day. The same can be said of
psychological health anxiety which also had its standardized score rise from 10.5 to 20.5 with
added screen time. Besides, sleep period decreases sharply to 5.4 hours/day from 8.1
hours/day, physical activity decreases to 1.5 hours/week from 4.5 hours/week apart from
increased BMI up to 33%. Gadget addiction also increases with age, and in children, it
reaches 30% for 6–10 years, 45% for 11–14 years, and 60% for 15–17 years. Precisely, these
results underline the necessity of practical developmental programs and activities concerning
academic work, adequately balanced with physical activity and sleep needs for children of a
particular age. In that regard, this paper demonstrates how addressing root causes and
deploying specific interventions helps to reduce the negative impacts related to gadget
addiction on children’s multiple domains of development.
Keywords Gadget addiction, Screen time, Academic performance, Psychological well-being, Sleep duration, Physical activity and Child development.
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-05-30
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.46017
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9m28h
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