IMPACT OF DIGITAL DEVICES AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Marija Smit and Zorislav Smit

Interdisciplinary Management Research, 2015, vol. 11, 989-1002

Abstract: The presence of multimedia in the upbringing of children is an inexhaustible subject for various debates and research, but regardless of the results that can be reached, it is impossible to isolate today’s children from the screens it comes across every day. In the modern-day world in which it is difficult to function without digital devices, it is necessary to point the child towards such behaviour that will bring out the best in them, and keep track of the time the child spends interacting with such devices. The development of the child’s personality, mental function and physical skills is affected by a number of actions that the child performs when playing, without even being aware of that, and therefore it cannot know how and to what extent its interaction with digital devices affects its physical and mental development. This is where the role of adults, especially parents, is important – they have to strive to form individuals who will have a good upbringing in the digital era without becoming addicts. Mobile applications available on digital devices are designed to stimulate the child’s development in a certain way and to serve as an educational tool for the development of specific skills, whereupon it is the parents’ task to guide the child and offer the child the best possible content, because a child naturally accepts new things and is open towards new and different games and ways to have fun.

Keywords: child; play; digital devices; mobile applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 J13 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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