The impact of using the TikTok website on the quality of life of Egyptian children

The study aims to identify the extent to which the quality of life of children is affected by their use of the Tik Tok website. This study is considered a descriptive study that aims to describe and study facts related to a phenomenon or situation in order to obtain data and information about this phenomenon. The researcher relied on an electronic questionnaire form to collect data from a sample. A total of 400 respondents were parents of these children.
The study found that one of the most important types of content that the respondents’ children prefer to follow through the Tik Tok website are comedy video clips (71%), and one of the most important reasons that motivate the respondents’ children to watch their favorite video clips on the Tik Tok website is “the attractiveness of the presentation and presentation.” In first place with a percentage of (63%), the results confirmed that the majority of the study sample of the respondents’ children imitated some of the video clips shown on the Tik Tok website with a percentage of (54%), The most prominent thing that the respondents’ children imitate after watching their favorite videos on Tik Tok is “learning the most famous dances” at a rate of (60.2%), while in second place was “learning words or linguistic terms that are foreign to customs and traditions, such as Sindal, Hanatrich.” ..etc” by (51.4%), and the results showed that the parents of the study sample stressed the importance of the role of parental control in reducing the negatives of their children watching video clips on the Tik Tok website, so it was “always” by (68%), Most of the study sample’s responses agreed on the “negative” impact of the respondents’ children watching videos via Tik Tok on their quality of life, at a rate of 84%. The results indicated that the environmental dimension ranked first in terms of the dimensions most affected in terms of the quality of life of the respondents’ children, at a rate of 84%. (74.13%), followed by the social dimension (73%), then the psychological dimension (72.33%), and finally the physical dimension (71.11%).