Abstract
Learning to adjust to peers and develop attitudes towards social groups and institutions is one of the developmental tasks of late childhood. Musical abilities present as innate and function since childhood.Associated with two things namely interpersonal intelligence and musical abilities, both are being developed in late childhood. This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between musical ability and interpersonal intelligence in the late childhood period. This research uses quantitative research method with the type of correlation. The population of this research was all students in grade 1-3 of Pangen Gudang Purworejo State Elementary School with a total of 107 people. The sample in this study was taken proportionally stratified random sampling, with a sample size of 32 people. The data collection was carried out by using questionnaire and test techniques. The data analysis uses product moment correlation, with musical ability as the independent variable and interpersonal intelligence as the dependent variable. The result showed that there was a strong and significant positive relationship between musical abilities and interpersonal intelligence in children during late childhood period. This evidence was obtained by r count > r table (0.643> 0.349) at 5% significance level. This means that the higher the musical ability, the higher the interpersonal intelligence students will have.
Highlights
Every child has the opportunity to develop their full potential
Gordon developed his instrument into PMMA (Primary Measures of Music Audiation), where musical abilities of kindergarten age children up to level 3 are sufficiently measured through 2 aspects namely tonal and rhythm imagery
As for the musical ability, the test instrument was adapted from PMMA from Edwin Gordon which consists of two indicators namely tonal imagery with subindicators distinguishing tone, melody and harmony
Summary
Every child has the opportunity to develop their full potential. They have different abilities from one another. Gordon developed his instrument into PMMA (Primary Measures of Music Audiation), where musical abilities of kindergarten age children up to level 3 are sufficiently measured through 2 aspects namely tonal and rhythm imagery. Through interactions with friends, children learn a lot about social skills, control emotions and respond to their friends' emotions Psychologists call this age group age because children want to be accepted by their peers and adjust to appearance, talk and behave (Hurlock, 2014). Associated with two things namely interpersonal intelligence and musical abilities, both are being developed in late childhood These aspects will be seen whether they have a relationship on both positive and negative, or not related at all. The answer to this question is expected to help the process of achieving learning goals in late childhood
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