CHILDREN ADDICTION TOWARD CARTOON PROGRAMS AND IMPACTS ON THEIR PHYSICAL HEALTH IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN

Abstract

The research analyzed the Children Addiction toward Cartoon Programs and the impact on their Physical Health in Islamabad, which is the capital city of Pakistan. Today's children spend their leisure time in front of the television to watching Cartoon programs rather to do any physical activity like .outing with friend and involvement in sports activities, which make them socially active and physically healthy. The majority of respondent 46% was agreed and 27.33% respondents were strongly agreed that watching cartoon programs more than three hours in a day limited children's physical activity, like playing games, participating in sports activities, playing football and other outdoor activities. The Cartoon addiction and impacts on the Physical Health was interpreted through the Theory of Cultivation. This theory indicated that television has a long term effects which are small, gradual and effects indirectly on the human being that the people attached and spend more time to watching television, they have, the more chances to accept what the realities were shown on television. According to the theory, there is a positive relationship between childhood television watching and physical, social and psychological effects among the young adulthoods. The data were collected from one hundred and fifty (150) respondents who were caretakers of children through structured closed ended questionnaires. The descriptive and inferential statistic was used to analyze the data. The findings of the research showed that the more children spend their time to watching cartoon programs the more chances of their physical problems and issues. From the result of cross tabulation showed that there is a strong relationship between Cartoon watching and the Physical health issues. The more children were watching cartoons, the more chances of their physical health issues. To overcome this issue the parents and teacher can play their role and aware children regarding the negative impacts of access watching cartoon movies on their daily life.