Independence of Preschool Children in Tenjolaya District Bogor Regency

Abstract

Independence in preschool children is the child's ability to regulate their thoughts and feelings so that they can do things themselves without help from others according to their stage of development. A child must grow in his independent abilities so that he can complete his developmental tasks to be able to move on to the stages of adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this research is to provide a systematic description of the independence of preschool-age children in Tenjolaya District, Bogor Regency. This research is quantitative research with research subjects of 80 mothers who have kindergarten children in group B. The data collection technique in this research uses a questionnaire with an instrument in the form of an independence scale with a Cronbach Alpha value of 0.797. This research uses descriptive analysis techniques with the help of SPSS 25.0 for Windows. Based on the results obtained, the children's independence score was in the low category as much as 18.75% (15 children), 65% (52 children) in the medium category, and another 16.25% (13 children) were in the high independence category. These results show that better efforts are needed to increase children's independence through various appropriate stimulation, whether carried out by teachers at school or by parents at home.