The Correlation between Caregivers’ Characteristics and Emotional Development of Pre-School Children in Depok, Indonesia

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to identify the correlation between emotional developments in pre-school children and the caregivers’ characteristics. This study employed cross sectional design with cluster sampling technique and involved 206 respondents. The inclusion criteria were mothers of a child aged 3–6 years old and willing to participate in the study. The result showed 42.7% children exhibited deviation in emotional development. There was a significant relationship of mother’s education and emotional development in children (p = 0.024; α = 0.05). Children of unemployed mothers had higher percentage of emotional deviation compared to working mother, although it was not significantly different (p = 0.387; α = 0.05). There was no significant correlation between caregivers and emotional development in children (p = 0.102; α = 0.05), child’s age and emotional development (p = 0.183; α = 0.05), and child’s gender and emotional development (p = 0.206; α = 0.05). Based on these findings, the stimulation of emotional development should be integrated into the curriculum for pre-school children in order to optimize their development.

KEYWORDS:

• Caregiver
• emotional development
• job status’ mother
• mother’s education
• PRE-school children

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgment in this study we are giving to all the parent’s respondent of this research.

Disclosure Statement

This research is no conflict of interest.

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Funding

This work is supported by Hibah PITTA 2018 funded by DRPM Universitas Indonesia No. 1861/UN2.R3.1/HKP.05.00/2018.