The two main purposes of the present study were to explore the gadget landscape in Malaysian households and to examine the relationship between gadget use and psychosocial status in pre-schoolers. The sample of the current study consists of 234 parent-child dyads of pre-schoolers aged five and six. Most parents in the study are Malays, married and living in urban regions (e.g. Kuala Lumpur, Sepang & Melaka Tengah). Next, most of the raters are mothers (74.4%). The raters were asked to complete the Gadget Use Questionnaire, to evaluate gadget usage such as duration of use, types of content when using media and types of gadget available, used and owned by pre-schooler, and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), to measure psychosocial status of pre-schoolers such as Peer Relationship Issues, Emotional Problems, Conduct Problem, Hyperactivity and Prosocial Behaviour, in Bahasa Malaysia. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the trends of media use while Ordinal.....

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