Abstract:
Children's independence can be seen from the ability of children to think
and do for themselves so that children are not dependent on others. Building
children's independence is easier to do early on and done in a fun way such
as telling a story that is recognized by the child for example by using things
around. The purpose of this research is to prove the effect of story methods
with objects around to the independence of children. This research design
uses pra eksperimen design with one group pre-post test design. The
population of this research is all 80 children of RA Mu'awanah Al-
Hasyimiyah Jombang. The sample of this study were all children of RA
Mu'awanah Al-Hasyimiyah Jombang with 80 respondents taken by total
sampling. The measuring instrument used was a questionnaire to assess the
independence of children which consists of 5 negative statements and 5
positive statements with 100% valid and reliable test results with ρ= 0.982.
Research time September 2019. Statistik test using the Wilcoxon Sign Rank
test with table= 0.05. The results showed that respondents who had positive
independence from 38 (47.5%) respondents increased to 71 (88.75%) of
respondents after being given a story on the topic of using things around such
as shoes, sandals, clothes, toys, stationery. Wilcoxon Sign Test results Rank
ρcount= 0,000 and table= 0.05. This means that there is an influence of the
story method with objects around to the independence of children. Stories
with things around that are already known and are familiar with the child even
every day used by the child can reflect independent behavior so that the child
can do something without help from others, able to make choices and take
responsibility for his choices.
