Life Skills Development through Baseball for Childen

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the differences in the development of life skills in the baseball practice group that integrated life skills with baseball training that was not integrated with life skills on the development of life skills. The design used in this study is the matching only-pretest-posttest control group design. The instrument used is the Life Skills Scale for Sport (LSSS). The results showed a significant difference in the life skills integrated baseball training program on the development of life skills giving a better effect. Therefore, there are differences in the development of life skills between the baseball practice group that integrates life skills and the baseball practice group that does not integrate life skills in the context of developing life skills from an early age. The difference is significant with the highest position of excellence in the baseball practice group that integrates life skills, then the baseball practice group that does not integrate life skills. Therefore, baseball can develop life skills, especially if the training process is integrated.