Abstract

The electronic gadget and peripherals had become part of everyone’s life. A simple transaction with current digital technology had pushed everyone to adopt gadget as unavoidable tool in our daily life. The advancement of digital world is one of the main factors which requires us to use gadget and other new big factor forcing people and students to use gadgets at maximum is the COVID-19 pandemics.

The COVID-19 pandemic had contributed to movement control order (MCO) where this had forced people use gadgets at high rate for education and works. The presentday study was carried put to find out the secondary school students wellbeing due to high usage of gadgets. Method: 200 students selected as sample size. Students from age of 13 to 16 from Klang Valley secondary school targeted as respondents. A questionnaire survey was conducted among these students.

The questionnaire assessed the overzealous use of electronic gadgets and their effects on student’s wellbeing. Results: The analysis from data shows 41.5% students uses the gadgets for more than 6 hours in daily basis and 27.0% of students spending 2 to 4 hours in a day, this had contributed effects on their wellbeing. The over usage of gadgets had contributed the students facing stress, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues. Conclusion: It is confirmed the over usage and over exposure of gadgets usage had affected wellbeing of students badly.

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