GANGGUAN PERILAKU PADA ANAK SD DITINJAU DARI EKSPRESI EMOSI IBU

Abstract

Behavior disorder, internal or external behavior, faced on many elementary students and influence on cognitive, emotional, and social aspects. Many factors involve in behavior disorder, one of them is parents-child relation patern, especially mother-child relation patern. Maladaptive mother-child relation patern will increase the probability to face many psychological disorders, and one type of maladaptive mother-child relation patern is high expressed emotion of mother when interact with their child.  The high expressed emotion manifested in critical comments, hostility, and emotional over involvement to the child. The aim of this research is to examine empirically the relationship between behavior disorder of elementary students and mother’s expressed emotion. Subjects are 369 elementary students grade 4, 5, and 6, from SDIT Al-Kautsar dan SD Muhammadiyah 16 Karangasem.  Data analysed with Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test.  The result show that there is significant relationship between behavior disorder of elementary students and mother’s expressed emotion, shown in Z score = -16.205, p<0.01. This result support many prior researches result, higher mother’s expressed emotion in mother-child interaction significantly related with the higher probability of the psychological disorders and relapsion of the disorders.

Keywords: behavior disorder, mother’s expressed emotion