Mother Involvement as An Effort to Prevent Internet Addiction in Children

Abstract

This study aims to find out a picture of mother involvement in preventing the tendency of internet addiction in children. This type of research is a type of qualitative research with phenomenological methods. The data collection methods used are interviews and observations. The purposive sampling technique is a technique used to collect data. Meanwhile, the data analysis techniques used consist of preparing data, reading the entire data, coding data, applying the results of data coding into themes to be analyzed, presenting themes in the form of narratives, and interpreting data. The results showed that the four subjects engaged in surveillance when their children were using the internet: FS, FA, NF, and SH. This is influenced by two factors, namely internal factors that come from within and external factors that come from outside the self. Excessive use of the internet will cause a tendency to internet addiction in children; this then makes the four subjects, namely FS, FA, NF, and SH subjects involved in supervision