The Relationship of Youtube Watching Intensity with Children's Social Emotional Development

Abstract

The progress of the current era is increasing, especially in the field of technology such as gadgets that can use can use to apply YouTube. Currently, YouTube is not only used as entertainment for children, but children make watching YouTube something that they must do in their daily activities. The purpose of this study was to analyze whether or not there was a relationship between the Intensity of watching YouTube and the social-emotional development of children. This study uses a quantitative correlation method. With a sample of 30 youtube users, it is using a purposive sampling technique. The research instrument used is a questionnaire and data processing techniques using product-moment correlation. From the analysis results, the final value obtained is a significant result of 0.528, r count is 0.120, and r table at a significance level of 5% = 0.3494. Thus, it can be concluded that H0 is accepted and Hα is rejected, which means that there is no significant relationship between the Intensity of watching YouTube and children's social-emotional development. But this research is still expected to provide knowledge for parents and teachers to pay more attention and guide children in watching YouTube so that it does not cause adverse impacts that affect children's emotions. This research also hopes that children can be wiser and selective in using YouTube, not negatively affecting social and emotional.