DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: HOW SMARTPHONE AFFECT EMPATHY IN MUSLIM YOUTH
Abstract
The broad utilize of smartphones has essentially reshaped communication, learning, and social interaction, especially among youthful Muslims. This think about looks at how smartphone utilization impacts their compassion levels, adjusting fast innovative appropriation with deep-rooted otherworldly and social values. Whereas smartphones give get to to devout substance and cultivate worldwide associations, they moreover posture challenges such as decreased face-to-face interaction, cyberbullying, and enthusiastic desensitization. Employing a mixed-methods approach, this investigate coordinating quantitative studies and subjective interviews to analyze utilization designs and their mental suggestions. The discoveries highlight a double reality—smartphones can both improve and prevent compassion. They empower worldwide outreach and compassionate endeavors however contribute to advanced segregation and sympathy weakness. To moderate these impacts, this ponder offers proposals based on Islamic standards, supporting for careful and purposefulness smartphone utilize. Teachers, guardians, and policymakers are encouraged to receive a all encompassing approach to computerized engagement, guaranteeing that youthful Muslims harmonize innovative progression with their otherworldly and moral advancement. Eventually, this investigate underscores the require for a carefully mindful era able of leveraging innovation as a apparatus for compassion, social cohesion, and interfaith understanding.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3059/insis.v0i0.23737
DOI (PDF): https://doi.org/10.3059/insis.v0i0.23737.g13063
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