Komunikasi Antarpribadi Orangtua dan Anak dalam Penggunaan Gadget

Abstract

The presences of globalization have an impact on the development of information and communication technologies that are sophisticated and innovative. One of the developments of information and communication technology that is currently emerging is known “gadgetâ€. Gadget users nowdays is no longer limited by social status or age, even kids are now having and playing their own devices. In this case, parents have an important role to control their children when they are using gadgets. The surveillance of parents is needed to communicate interpersonal with their children effectively in order to influence their minds, attitudes and behaviors. Based on these descriptions, the researcher is interested to make a research that aims to determine how the interpersonal communication of parents and children about using gadgets in terms of the five qualities, openness, empathy, supportiveness, positiveness and equality. This research used descriptive quantitative method which the researcher distributed questioners to collect data and used disproporsional stratified technique sampling. Therefore there are 70 respondent (children’s parents from level 5 SDN Banjarsari, Bandung). Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that the interpersonal communication of parents and children about using gadgets in terms of quality of openness, empathy, being supportive, positive attitude and equality are included in the high category.