ABSTRACT

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PARENTING STYLE AND

SOCIALIZATION SKILL OF CHILDREN WITH MENTAL
RETARDATION AT EXTRAORDINARY ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL C (SDLB C) OF BANYUWANGI
IN 2018

BY :
YUNIKE RINDU WASTUTI (2014.02.083)

Mental retardation is an incomplete or stopped mental development which

is characterized by skill barriers during the developmental period, so it affects the
level of intelligence, namely social skill. The development of children's
socialization skills in mental retardation is strongly influenced by their social
media, especially parenting style which is very influental in social development of
children with mental retardation. This study aimed to determine the correlation
between parenting style and the socialization skills of children with mental
retardation at extraordinary elementary school c of (SDLB C) Banyuwangi 2018.
The type of research used in this study is correlation study, which analye
the correlation between two variables in a situation or group of subjects, the
design of this study was cross sectional, where the researcher emphasizes the time
of measurement or observation of independent and dependent variable data only
once at the time. the measuring instrument used questionnaire and observation
sheet. the number of population was 56 respondents and the sample taken was 56
respondents. The sampling technique used total sampling. the test used in this
study is rank spearman.
The results of univariate analysis showed that most of the parenting style
in the enough categoryis was 36 respondents (68%), while for socialization skill
of mental retardation in enough category was 28 children (50%).
The results of bivariate analysis using Spearman rank test with SPSS 16
obtained ρ value = 0.015 with a significance level of 0.05 (ρ <a or ρ <n 0.05).
Then Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected which means there was a significant
correlation between parenting style and the socialization skill of children with
mental retardation at extraordinary elementary school c (SDLB C) at 2018, and
strength between the two variables inspected showed sufficient correlation ranged
0.324.
Children with mental retardasion socialize well. good parenting style can
affect socialization skill of children with mental retardation, and support from the
school especially teachers can support the development of socialization skill on
children with mental retardation.

Keywords: parenting style, socialization skills, mental retardation