Children Animated Program: the Study of the Influence Towards Behaviour of Children Age 4 to 10 in Klang Valley

Yap, Jia Ying (2020) Children Animated Program: the Study of the Influence Towards Behaviour of Children Age 4 to 10 in Klang Valley. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

In the modern age, digital animated program is typically a motion of specific images in a particularly attractive sequence for the sake of animation. Various studies conducted in the past reveal different researches outcome on the influence of digital animated program on the small ages’ children, both in term of positive and negative aspects. Most studies have shown that children might get affected easily by continuous exposure to different animated shows within their ages. Since there is a lack of research content to show the influence of digital animated programs towards the children age between 4 to 10 years old in Klang Valley, Malaysia, this study was carried out with the attempt to examine into the effects of watching animated programs towards the children behaviours, and thus to provide recommendations for how to manage the animated programs among the children so that only the positive effects are imposed towards the children. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, both quantitative and qualitative research approaches are adopted to collect adequate perceptions from both the respondents and informants. A total of 100 respondents were successfully collected through the online survey questionnaire, while there are 3 informants were investigated thoroughly via in-depth interview. The study has found that most people in Klang Valley perceived that watching animated programs are more prone to impose negative effects towards their children behaviours. As a result, this shows that the parents and guardians nowadays have to be really give proper management on the types of animated programs being shown to their children, so that to avoid those negative elements, such as violence, sexual and etc from exposing to the children’s physical and mental development.