The Impact of Smartphone Ussage Towards Family Harmony (A Study on Career Women in Makassar City)

Abstract

─ Smartphones provide positive effect and negative effect if it is not used wisely, including maintaining household harmony for career women. T his study aims to determine the impact of smartphone use among career women in their relationships with family, household and how they organize their households from the threat of disharmony during smartphone use. This research was conducted in Makassar, Indonesia by using qualitative research with a case study approach. Data was obtained purposively from observation and in-depth interviews from four career women professions (Lecturers, Politicians, Notaries, and Entrepreneurs then analyzed by using the Miles and Huberman model. This study found that there are positive and negative impacts of smartphone use in career women's households, where smartphones can be a solution in communicating when they are far apart, but on the other hand, excessive smartphone use affects each other's intimacy, while the efforts and methods that what career women do to manage the household during a rush of information is to maintain their communication with their husbands and children and to instill an attitude of mutual honesty and trust.