Published Paper


Influence of Social Media Usage of New Mothers on Quality of Child Care

Dr. N.Prema
SRM School of Teacher Education and Research, SRM IST
Page: 559-565
Published on: 2024 September

Abstract

There is a view among common people is, when the parents are using social media, especially the mother’s usage gives negative impact on child rearing practice. As per the results ofsome research,we came to know that, when the parentsusing social media, they will havestress, depression andmental health issues. This study aimed to understand the influence of social media usage of new mothers on quality of child care. One hundred and thirty new mothers were taken as sample in the beginning to know how many new mothers are using social media. Finally, 120 new mothers who are using social media were taken for in-depth analysis excluding ten of them were not using social media for some valid reasons. Semi-structured interview method has been adopted to collect the relevant data for this research. Out of 120 sample, only ten percentage of new mothers are using Social Media for Health information even though they have small child/children. The remaining mothers are using it for other purposes, such as cooking, entertainments etc. Fifty percentage of young mothers are using Social media for more than three hours. This kind of attitude makes the other members of the family to get irritated. So that they are dissatisfied with the quality of Child care of new mothers.  

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