<p class="0abstract">Gadgets nowdays become one of the most important necessities in human life. The use of gadgets is not only becomes a widespread among adults, but the younger generation also being exposed to this diverse technology gadgets. The gadgets usage among younger generation contributes to the numerous impacts on their socio-emotional development whether in negative or positive ways. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between knowledge and attitude, towards technology gadget usage and the students' socio-emotions development at Tiram, Johor. This study was conducted using quantitative research design and the questionnaires were distributed to 260 students in three schools around the Tiram zone for data collection purpose. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation inference statistics to identify the relationship between the two variables. The results of the analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between knowledge and attitudes, towards the gadget usage among students and their socio-emotion’s development. The findings of this study indicate that the students' knowledge and attitude towards the gadgets have a relationship with the students' socio-emotions. Therefore, this study is important in providing information especially to the schools, parents and students in order to figure out the appropriate alternative on using the gadgets more effectively.<strong></strong></p>

The purpose of this research being done is to investigate systematic literature review related to students’ attitude towards technological gadget and its effects towards students’ sosio-emotional. There are a few articles being published between the year 2007 until 2016 by using Science Direct, Springer Link database and search from Research Gate. Researcher used keywords such as “digital devices” “students attitude on technologies use” and “socio-emotional” to identify articles that are related. The findings of the previous research showed that there are various positive and negative perspectives about technology usage towards students’ development especially from the aspects of students’ attitude, social and emotion. In social context, many research showed positive effect on gadget usage towards students’ social development if the gadget usage is being supervised by parents and it is being used in group. However, the effects of gadget usage towards students’ emotion are still vague because of the lack of research being done related to emotional aspect inside and outside of this country. Therefore, the implication of this research is important in providing information and understanding to everyone including parents, school and society on the importance of students’ social and emotional development apart from solely stressing on the development in students’ cognitive or motor skills aspects.