The Relationship of Stimulation Implementation with Developmental Abilities in Pre-school Age Children

Abstract

Preschool period to be a conducive period for developing various kinds of abilities, intelligence, talents, physical, cognitive, language, emotional and spiritual abilities in children. One of the factors that has a big influence in supporting children's development is the stimulation factor. The purpose to analysis the relationship application of stimulation to the developmental abilities with pre-school children. The research design is quantitative with a correlational descriptive method using a cross sectional study approach. This research used 242 respondents who were mothers of pre-school children aged 48-72 months and who were actively participating in kindergarten education. The research results showed that the application of developmental stimulation had been carried out well in 51.2% of respondents. Children's developmental abilities, 62% of children have appropriate developmental abilities, 28.9% of children have doubtful developmental abilities and 9.1% of children have the possibility of deviations in their development. From the results of statistical tests using the chi square test, it was found that the value of p = 0.000 < α 0.05 was statistically significant, so there was a significant relationship between the application of child development stimulation to the developmental abilities of pre-school aged children.