Parents’ Attitudes Toward Children’s Television Viewing and Its Role in Child Development

Abstract

The main concern of this study is to determine the parents’ attitudes toward television viewing and its role in child development of Grade 2 learners at Sta. Cristina Elementary School and Piela Elementary School at the City Schools Division of Dasmariñas during School Year 2017-2018. A total of 255 parents participated as respondents to this study. It was revealed that most of the respondents are female, age range from 31 to 40 years old, high school graduate and mostly are unemployed. Parent attitudes on television viewing was moderately agree with an average weighted mean of 3.34, while on parents’ description toward the role of television in child’s development is also moderately agree with an average weighted mean of 3.27 respectively. The data on testing the significant difference on the response of parents on attitudes on television viewing and the perceived role of television viewing on child’s development the f-test or the one-way analysis of variance was used. Meanwhile, in terms of the perceived role of television viewing on child’s development there is a significant difference in terms of age and highest educational attainment, while, there is no significant difference in the perceived role of television viewing according to sex and occupation. As such, the researcher suggested ways on how parents could mitigate the effects of television viewing to their children and how they could play their important role more effectively.