Keywords: risk of gadget addiction; family functioning; gadget addiction; smartphone addiction. scale; family assessment device.If the family is functioning well, its members. may learn and understand what behaviors are most. appropriate to deal with these situations.
The aim of the study is to examine whether gadget addiction influences adolescents family functioning and its dimensions. Data were collected from 226 adolescents aged 12-18 years old. We used Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) developed by Kwon et al.
The second instrument is Family Assessment Device (FAD) by Epstein et al. (1983) to measure family functioning. These results indicate that there are significant differences on the seven dimensions of family functioning between the two groups of gadget use addiction (high and low risk).
Figure 1: Negative consequences of gadget addiction. While technology and gadgets have replaced playing outside with friends, as caregivers how can you intervene? Getting children off this gadget dependency is challenging but not impossible.
