THE EFFECT OF BETENGAN GAME ON THE SOCIO-EMOTIONAL SKILLS OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

This research is aimed at analyzing differences in children's socio-emotional development prior to and after playing Betengan game at TK Al Maghfiroh Semarang and analyzing the measure of socio-emotional skills development after playing Betengan game at TK Al Maghfiroh Semarang. This research employed the quantitative approach using experimental method. The type of experiment used was one group pretest posttest. The samples were 30 anak. Results show Sig. (2 tailed) < 0.05, at 0.000 < 0.05. Hence it is concluded that there is a difference in the result of both pre-test and post-test for children's socio-emotional skills. The value for this effect of Betengan game on children's socio-emotional skills is at calculated r2 = 0.773 x 0.773 = 0.597 atau 59.7%. This means that the effect of Betengan game on children's socio-emotional skills at TK Al Maghfiroh is an improvement of 59.7%. Therefore, this research concludes that there is a difference in children's socio-emotional skills prior to and after playing Betengan game. This difference in an increase of 59.7% in children's socio-emotional skills.